Re: wireless device has ip, can't ping
Obi,
Thanks for the reply, i actually figured out what the problem was,
finally. Often i just try out new stuff, usually after i know that
something works, sometimes before and that can get you into those grey
areas.
I was plugging my WAP into a hardware router, not directly into my cable
line so i was connecting fine to the internet but that WAP could not
recieve the DNS servers through the router, which i still think is odd.
If i use my other debian box as a NAT/firewall and go into that first
then to the WAP, it will get the dns.
Thanks again.
>>> Obi <graziano@cs.ucsb.edu> 05/03/03 1:58 PM >>>
I think that the other options would be to instruct your WAP to give
you back a different DNS server. Mine has this option in the
configuration.
dhclient.conf is the same file: it just changed place lately (I'm
running sid). If you edit the file you'll see a lot of commented out
options and one of them is something like:
prepepnd domanin-name-servers ...
and you can then put yours in there.
ciao
graziano
On 2003.05.02 06:32, David Wright wrote:
> >Are you running DHCP?
> >You can see in /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts for a DHCP option.
>
> - yes to both, i did.
> /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts
> DHCP="y"
>
> >I use dhclient and I had to >modify /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to
> precede
> my DNS to >the one coming from the dhcp server.
>
> -I'm not familiar with this file: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
> I know /etc/dhclient.conf but do not usually have to have any special
> config.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> -mus
>
>
>
> On 2003.05.02 00:53, cmustard wrote:
>
> Ok, i know that this is because the system is
> not seeing the correct nameservers. I just installed this
> wireless card and it seems to come up ok, with the correct drivers
> etc, The problem is i can't ping aything not on my local network,
> like, 'yahoo.com', however i can ping:
> 64.58.79.230, which is yahoo, so is appears the nameservers
> are not being seen.
>
> /etc/resolv.conf gets automatically
> written at boot (and shutdown) time to:
> search
> nameservers 192.168.0.1
>
> by, what i believe, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
>
> If i try to configure /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
> to include the proper dns servers of my isp it will
> include them but still appends the above as it's last
> entry. I know that 192.168.0.1 is the WAP ip, (my gateway
> to the internet) but where is it getting this entry and how
> can i properly add the correct dns servers so i can actually use
> this card.
>
>
> thanks
>
> -cmus
>
>
>
>
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