[PLUG] Wifi Help

Ron Braithwaite ron at braithwaites.net
Fri Sep 30 20:16:10 UTC 2005


I forgot to give the fix that worked. Turns out shorewall was  
installed misconfigured and blocked all access by eth2 (but eth0 went  
through fine).

On Sep 28, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Ron Braithwaite wrote:

> 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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Ron Braithwaite
2015 NE 37th Ave
Portland, OR 97212 USA
503-267-3250
ron at braithwaites.net





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