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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless trouble, bad hardware?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:00:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10610231900r6052fb8fr97cd1110095e6d88@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2354.210.55.22.193.1161654011.squirrel@drgnfire.is-a-geek.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.

After rebooting the desktop, all I get from ping attempts is:

connect: Network is unreachable

so I guess it won't connect at all now.  I don't think ifconfig would
be useful now, but let me know if I'm wrong or if you have any other
ideas.

- Grant
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24  2:07 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
2006-10-24  2:00     ` Grant [this message]
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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