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* [gentoo-user] Fios & wireless laptop access problem
@ 2007-02-15  1:54 Mike Markowski
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From: Mike Markowski @ 2007-02-15  1:54 UTC (permalink / raw
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I just got Verizon's fios and love the high bandwidth.  But I can't get 
my gentoo laptop fully connected through a wireless connection.  Has 
anyone been through this already?  Here are the highlights:

- I'm using a Verizon supplied an Actiontec router which includes 
wireless and seems to be a pretty nice linux based router.

- a Nintendo Wii makes a wireless connection and accesses internet sites 
fine, so the Verizon-provided Actiontec router seems to be set up ok.

- the gentoo laptop requests (via "dhcpcd eth1") and receives an ip 
address from the router's WAP.  I thought I'd be home free at this 
point, but not so.

- using wireshark to watch a "ping 192.168.1.1" I can see a 192.168.1.1 
ARP packet tell the laptop its mac address, then the laptop starts to 
send out a ICMP echo requests...and gets no response.  Firewall settings 
in the router are at the minimal setting for this test.

- my laptop connects fine to my neighbor's WAP and reaches the internet. 
  So if it weren't for the Wii successfully connecting and getting out 
I'd say the firewall is to blame.  I get the same symptoms trying to 
access web sites or even https://192.168.1.1 which is set up for this 
test to allow me to administer via wireless.

- FWIW:
kryten mm # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway      Genmask        Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0  0.0.0.0      255.255.255.0  U     0      0        0 eth1
127.0.0.0    0.0.0.0      255.0.0.0      U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0      192.168.1.1  0.0.0.0        UG    0      0        0 eth1

I'm stumped at the moment and hope someone sees what I'm missing. 
Thanks very much for any ideas.

Mike
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