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Hi all, have been working on this for a few days and searching until my eyes bleed so I am either rubbish or it doesn't exist.
I have a Dell c600 laptop with an SMC wireless card in the PCMCIA slot. It uses the prism54 drivers. I also use a Linksys wrt54g. I have it all setup to run DHCP with Telstra cable.
The connection works on the pc I type this from and I know it will work on the laptop as I loaded the ubuntu live cd to try it out and it worked.
I eventually managed to get the card recognised by using the ls3890 and I folled the wiki and guides for everything for that.
The problem is that i just cant seem to ping anything. What's also weird is that it appears in the linksys page to say what ip it has been assiged!
Anyone have any ideas. I haven't posted any of my config files yet as someone may know already and I have to type them out manually - which I will if I need to
But some basic info:
I have it setup to eth1 and dmesg says it's there. I also have included the gateway and ROUTE lines to my routers gateway id of 192.168.1.1 (what I used to access the settings also). Should this line be included or commented out?
I want to start fiddling with packages but I can't with no net. Maybe I should try and get the ethernet working and install some gui wireless apps now that I have the card running?
Last edited by Valavien (2007-08-17 17:40:37)
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Can you ping the router ?
If that works, try pinging a site on ip-adress : 66.211.213.17 is the address for archlinux.org .
In case those work, you have a dns-problem.
Also recently there were problems with dhcpcd that were solved after several updates, maybe you can update through a temporary wired connection for now ?
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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Can't ping at all becaues the network is down. I am going to update dhcpcd but I have to do that by copying a file onto cd and then to the laptop. The wired network won't work either.
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Looks like settting it up with static ip worked. I also had to put in DNS entries into /etc/resolv.conf
Thanks for the help and I hope my solution helps people
Last edited by Valavien (2007-08-17 17:42:06)
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