Re: Configuring wireless router question



On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:07:25 -0500, Jim Haynes wrote:

I'm trying to help a youngster get started in Linux. Right now we are
working on getting networking up. We can get it to work with a
neighbor's unsecured Linksys router, but not with the Belkin router in
his home. Under Windows everything works fine with the Belkin router.
With Linux we get through the dhclient process, seem to get an IP
address assigned and an address of the 192.168 family appears in
/etc/resolv.conf. But we can't ping anything, and name server lookup
does not happen.

Can anyone suggest what Windows is doing that Linux is not? Or what
Linksys does that Belkin does not? Or what we should be poking and
prodding to learn what is going on?

What type of security are you using on the Belkin? WEP or WPA? If WPA,
you'll need to use wpa_supplicant. man wpa_supplicant for more.

WEP works with the 'key' option in iwconfig.

Oh! And what distro are you using. And what exactly are you doing to
connect to the router? Commandline or a wizard? What driver for the
Belkin?

Stef
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