ummm.... i am no networking expert by any means - all i can say is that
i've had this card succesfully running at home running that other OS
with the equivalent setup ie address set by dhcp. my understanding was
that the wireless card is just another node on the network and should be
in the SAME subnet? but as i say, i'm no expert and stand to be
corrected - i'm here to learn more than anything.
i'm not sure what more info you would like about the network. it's just
a simple setup - linksys wag54g router (and additional switch), a couple
of wired desktops running (win2k on one, xp/suse on another) and the
notebook (xp/suse) (wired and wireless though for this exercise not
connected via ethernet). 192.168.1.0/24 (but that would have been
obvious).
the only routing setting i have made is in yast "network card" - it has
a routing section, which just contains a setting for the default
gateway, which I have set to the router's ip address. that's global for
the machine, i believe?
after yet another powering off and reboot (it's something to do with the
wireles card - usually when writing new settings to it via yast?) and
connecting via ethernet, i can ping out or use a browser. via the
wireless card only, can't get beyond the router.
cheers,
roger
Nick Rout wrote:
OK I immediately note that both network cards are on the same subnet.
That doesn't seem right intuitively. For example how is routing
achieved?
AFAIK wired and wireless should be two subnets, and your router should
forward to the correct subnet.
perhaps more info about your network is needed.
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:51:43 +1300
Roger Searle wrote:
sorry - i sent the wrong output of ifconfig, here is the correct one:
notebook:/home/roger # ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:74:9A:D0
inet addr:192.168.1.67 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
[SNIP]
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:9C:46:72
inet addr:192.168.1.69 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
[SNIP]
