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From: "Jamie" <gentoo@ihug.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless trouble, bad hardware?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:40:11 +1300 (NZDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2354.210.55.22.193.1161654011.squirrel@drgnfire.is-a-geek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10610231813n7d612f49sa34fae0c2e6a76b9@mail.gmail.com>

>> I'm having trouble with one of my systems not being able to reliably
>> connect to my Gentoo router wirelessly.
>>
>> I have a Netgear WG311T in the router and also the desktop that is
>> having trouble.  I have a Netgear WG511T in my laptop.  They all use
>> the madwifi driver.  The laptop connects perfectly every time, and the
>> desktop used to connect perfectly but has slowly become less and less
>> reliable until now it rarely connects.  The laptop and desktop are
>> both about 12 feet from the router.  I'm in an apartment, but it
>> doesn't seem like interference could be the problem since the laptop
>> connects perfectly every time.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend anything to check in software?  Does this sound
>> like a hardware problem?
>
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to mention that pinging the
> router (192.168.0.1) from the desktop returns:
>
> From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> 192.168.1.2 is the router's address on the WAN.  If the desktop can't
> communicate with the router, how would it know the router's WAN
> address?
>

What WAN Address? I cannot see any address other than one of the reserved
class C's. I would suggest that either the PC you are pinging from
("desktop") does not have an address in the same range as the router, or
the default gateway is incorrect on the "desktop". Another possibility is
a an IP conflict but this is less likely.
Can you possibly post the IP configuration (ifconfig) from the "desktop"
machine so that we can see how the interface is set up.


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24  1:04 [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble, bad hardware? Grant
2006-10-24  1:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2006-10-24  1:40   ` Jamie [this message]
2006-10-24  2:00     ` Grant
2006-10-24  2:23       ` Jamie
2006-10-24  3:26         ` Grant
2006-10-24 17:51           ` Grant
2006-10-25  0:05             ` Grant

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