Soooo close to wireless

pgcudahy · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 8

Hey, I have a wmp54g pci wireless card. I've been setting it up by plugging my wired ethernet card into the switch on the back of the linksys access point I'm using and having no problems. Using ndiswrapper I've gotten the card up and it even gets an IP from the access point. The only problem is that if I unplug the wired line, reboot and try to ping the outside world it says the network is unreachable. I don't think it's the access point because I can use a wired connection to it to access the internet. I can also bring up the access point's web setup in a browser using wireless. There's no wep or mac filtering on it either. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

lamekain · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:43 am Post subject:

when you boot up without the wired connection connected is eth0 (or whatever it is) brought up?
I have eth0 and eth1 (wireless) on my laptop and eth0 has to be down in order to use eth1 (otherwise all traffic goes through the first interface -> eth0). You can still access your access point because it resides in the same network as eth1, but everything else defaults to eth0.

Boot up your computer without the ethernet connection and try: