[driverloader] Network works but no WAN

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

If you use SuSE, try to set these parameters in the interface's
configuration file.

DHCLIENT_PRIMARY_DEVICE=yes
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE=yes

You might have to put them to "no" for other interfaces.

The files should be '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*'.

With RedHat and Mandrake, verify if you have a static "GATEWAY" variable in
'/etc/sysconfig/network'. Also make sure that you don't have another
interface obtaining a default gateway from a DHCP server.

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grégoire Abplanalp" <greg.a at bluewin.ch>
To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:19 AM
Subject: [driverloader] Network works but no WAN


Hi everybody,

I'm a complete newbie to linux... I've installed the driverloader yesterday
and after much fooling around with ifconfig and iwconfig, I got the network
to work. I can ping myself, ping other computers on the network, and ping
the AP (which is also my router). However, I can't ping any website, like
www.google.com. I don't think it's a DNS problem, since ping displays an IP
address next to the domain name. My AP's mac address is shown in iwconfig
output.
This sounds similar to the problem Mike Reith was having (see this post:
http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/2003q4/000364.html).

Thank you very much for any help you could give me. I've tried everything I
could think about, but as I said I'm a complete newbie...

Gregoire Abplanalp