On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Ellen Dash wrote:
> I can now ping the gateway with both the miniPCMCIA and the silver card!
> (192.168.1.1), but can't seem to get past the gateway to the outside world.

Sounds like your routing is stuffed. I noticed that your wired ethernet
card is on the same subnet as the wireless card. That might well be where
things are going wrong. It might be that your default route is via the
wired interface (or is missing completely). What you need is something
like:

/sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0 dev eth2
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1

However you'll probably need to weed out what you've already got set up in
the routing tables before that'll work.
 
> Any other suggestions out there? It seems really odd to me that the light
> on the card isn't even flashing when I try to ping the outside world... but
> it does flash when I ping the AP.

Not really too surprising if the routing is up the swanny. The Linux
boxes probably knows it has a route to the subnet that 192.168.1.1 (your
gateway) is on via eth2 (your wireless card). So when you ping
192.168.1.1 it send it out via eth2 and you see da blinken lights. What
it doesn't have is either a default gateway or the route to the default
gateway is via the (now unplugged) eth0. So those packets either never
get generated ('cos it doesn't know where to send them first) or get
dropped into the bit bucket.

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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