[PLUG] Wifi Help

[Ron Braithwaite]

On Sep 28, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:14:29PM -0700, Ron Braithwaite wrote:
>> I'm trying to help a friend with a Motion Computing M1300 Tablet PC,
>> loaded with Mandriva 2005 LE and the 2.6.11 kernel. It has a 1 GHz
>> Centrino that shows up under WinXP (it's a dual boot system) with an
>> Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI  wireless connection. It
>> works just fine under WinXP.
>>
>> When I do an ifconfig eth2, I see that it has given me 192.168.0.3. I
>> can ping the 0.3 address, but when I try to ping the gateway, I get
>> Destination Host Unreachable and ping: sendmsg: Operation not
>> permitted, with 1 packet transmitted, 0 received.
>>
>> This *should* be working, but its not and I don't have a clue as  
>> to why.
>
> As root, look at the output of "route" to make sure that you are  
> routing
> packets correctly (that is, through eth2).  Also, check that your  
> firewall
> permits the packets (it might pass dhcp packets but not ping).  You  
> may
> have to turn off eth1 or eth0 (whatever the normal ethernet  
> connection is).
>
> Also, try pinging the laptop from the gateway, with tcpdump running on
> both ends.

Thanks, Keith (and Dick). I'll try this today and let you know if it  
worked and what the problem was/is.

-Ron

Ron Braithwaite
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