Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Jim Morris wrote: Derick Rethans wrote: I do, and that's the weirdest part - the rx packet count increases too even. I also checked whether it could be a broken resolver, but pinging to an IP adres doesn't work either. Check your AP's firewall is not blocking

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-28 Thread -stacy
When I was playing with the WLAN on the FreeRunner (about a month ago) I ran into an issue where my AP thought the FR was in power saving mode even though the FR didn't think so (or at least iwconfig said it was off). If I issued a # iwconfig eth0 power off that would fix it. That was with

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, -stacy wrote: When I was playing with the WLAN on the FreeRunner (about a month ago) I ran into an issue where my AP thought the FR was in power saving mode even though the FR didn't think so (or at least iwconfig said it was off). If I issued a # iwconfig eth0 power

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, nickd wrote: Joel Newkirk wrote: Derick Rethans wrote: I get a DHCP lease, with nameservers and all, the route is correct too. However, I can't do any sort of connection - nor ping. Try ip r and see if it lists two default routes - one out usb0 and one out

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote: Hello, I received my freerunner last weekend, and liking it sofar. I've had a play with wifi - and although the freerunning sees the networks just fine (with iwlist eth0 scan) and I can connect to the network as well - I get a DHCP lease, with

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote: I received my freerunner last weekend, and liking it sofar. I've had a play with wifi - and although the freerunning sees the networks just fine (with iwlist eth0 scan) and I can connect to the

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote: I received my freerunner last weekend, and liking it sofar. I've had a play with wifi - and although the freerunning sees the networks just fine

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Al Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote: I received my freerunner last weekend, and liking it sofar. I've had a play with wifi - and although the

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Jim Morris
Derick Rethans wrote: I do, and that's the weirdest part - the rx packet count increases too even. I also checked whether it could be a broken resolver, but pinging to an IP adres doesn't work either. Check your AP's firewall is not blocking TCP/IP from the FR, or any other firewall you

WLAN troubles

2008-08-26 Thread Derick Rethans
Hello, I received my freerunner last weekend, and liking it sofar. I've had a play with wifi - and although the freerunning sees the networks just fine (with iwlist eth0 scan) and I can connect to the network as well - I get a DHCP lease, with nameservers and all, the route is correct too.

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-26 Thread Joel Newkirk
Derick Rethans wrote: I get a DHCP lease, with nameservers and all, the route is correct too. However, I can't do any sort of connection - nor ping. I have a similar problem when I fire up wifi, and it's caused by having two default routes. Try ip r and see if it lists two default routes -

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-26 Thread nickd
I've experienced the same thing as the OP. Running Windows as my hosts means it's a pain to set it up as a router, so I connect via Wifi and use it for everything. My solution is to put the following in my /etc/network/interfaces under eth0: up route del default gw 192.168.0.200 This will