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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:03:29AM +0200, Kim Fredenberg wrote:
>
>>sudo ifconfig wi0 ssid kieran
>>
>>I still cannot ping either by ip or dns.  Here is the output of
>>ifconfig:
>> 
>
>What are you trying to ping, your gateway or something in the Internet?
>If your pinging outside of your network your route (default gateway) 
>settings
>might be incorrect. Try pinging something in the same subnet and see if 
>that works.
>

I have tried pinging the gateway (192.168.0.1) and another computer on
the network (192.168.0.42) and an outside IP address and google.com.  No
joy on any of them.
-- 

yours,

William