wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 11:19, Jayton Garnett wrote:
> I have managed to get my wifi card UP and associated with my router, but
> I can not work with it (i.e ping bbc.co.uk, view web pages etc)
> Gnome's network monitor reports 0% strength, yet I can access my routers

The signal strength stuff is probably not available via ndis, so ignore that.

> setup page but not any other webpage on the internet.
> When I go to view the wireless clients connected to my router it reports
> none are connected, yet I am viewing the setup pages!
> I disabled my realtek with:
> ifconfig rl0 down
> I do not have WEP enabled.
> Before Gnome started up I noticed something about another interface
> using the same IP as my ndis0 device.

What exactly?

> If you require any further details please ask.

Where is your default route going?

> desktop# ping bbc.co.uk
> PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.131): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Network is down
> ping: sendto: Network is down
> ^C
> --- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> desktop#

I suggest you ifconfig rl0 delete otherwise the routing table may indicate 
that packets should go via rl0 which is down, hence the error message.

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