Problem setting up wireless lan connection

From: insomniux (mike.bosschaert_at_hccnet.nl)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: 14 Jan 2005 13:11:27 -0800

Hi,
I try to connect my laptop with my Zaurus (linux PDA with wifi card) by
wireless lan but with no succes. On both machines pinging the local
cards work. However pinging form one box to the other does not work. I
use 192.168.2.22 for the laptop and 192.168.2.23 for the pda.
Furthermore the laptop has an eth0 to connect to the wired lan.

Could anyone please help me getting this to work?

Mike

This is the output of iwconfig and ifconfig:
laptop iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:""
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

laptop ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:14196 (13.8 Kb) TX bytes:14196 (13.8 Kb)

usbd0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:00:01:00:00:01
inet addr:192.168.129.201 Bcast:192.168.129.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:110 (110.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:A7:0B:F4
inet addr:192.168.2.23 Bcast:192.168.2.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

iwconfig laptop:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:2432 B Fragment thr:2432 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256
dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig laptop:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:3F:99:84
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6931 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:2 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4836842 (4.6 Mb) TX bytes:995496 (972.1 Kb)
Interrupt:4 Base address:0x1c00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1731 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1731 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:617263 (602.7 Kb) TX bytes:617263 (602.7 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6B:29:05:E9
inet addr:192.168.2.22 Bcast:192.168.2.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:17766 (17.3 Kb)
Interrupt:9 Memory:d0004800-d00048ff

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