>
> > When I try to ping a host on the local network, or one outside, I see
> >> 'network is unreachable.' What do I do to fix this?
> > I learned about Setup->Network Connections and entered the host IP
> > address, netmask, and gateway IP address. Restarted the system. Still
> cannot
> > ping anyone.
> >
> > I also entered the PSK for the Linksys WL-520GC in the configuration
> for
> > our network. Still no joy.
> >
> > No idea what I'm missing here.
>
> Rich, glad to hear the rfkill info was helpful. I suspect here that either
your netmask and/or gateway is incorrect. Can you copy & paste the output
of the 2 shell commands per the example below:
1. ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:e0:00:89:53
inet addr:10.0.0.6 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:e0ff:fe00:8953/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:295272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:180769 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:413973232 (394.7 MiB) TX bytes:19148968 (18.2 MiB)
2. netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
wlan0
0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
wlan0