Tom, I would guess that your problem is due to having both devices initialized when only one is actually connected. Due to the change to a static ip, eth0 will be initialized whenever the nic drivers are loaded, regardless of whether or not eth0 is actually connected to the network. To test this possibility take down eth0 when you are trying to use just the wireless connection with 'ifconfig eth0 down' and then ping the router. For a bit more in depth explanation see my responses below. On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:08, Tom Hosiawa wrote: <snip> > Yeah I'm running both nic's simultaneously, but use the wireless > connection most of the time. > If you are only using the wireless connection this is likely to cause problems when communicating with local systems as the data may be sent over eth0 or 192.168.1.3. For example your ping results:
> or ping 192.168.1.2 (the other pc on the lan), I get: > PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data. > From 192.168.1.3 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable > From 192.168.1.3 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable > From 192.168.1.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ^ 192.168.1.3 is referenced as eth0 based on your ifconfig results. > ifconfig results: > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0D:8A:6A:0A > inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 <snip> > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:2B:1A:54 > inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 You seem to be able to access the outside world due to the specification of eth1/192.168.1.1 as your gateway. Your routing table confirms this: > 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 > eth1 As an aside you are unable to ping tsn.ca because it doesn't appear to respond to icmp echo requests. From my machine: $ ping -c4 tsn.ca PING tsn.ca (199.246.67.211) 56(84) bytes of data. --- tsn.ca ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3013ms but... $ ping -c2 www.google.com PING www.google.com (216.239.51.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.51.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=89.0 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.51.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=88.0 ms --- www.google.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 88.007/88.505/89.003/0.498 ms Hope this helps, Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list