Problem with WLAN connection (Win working, Linux not)

[Horus107]

Hello,
first of all: usually my WLAN connection with Linux works just fine, at home and also in a couple of internet cafes I tried. But now I'm living a couple of days at a friends house and I'm not getting the WLAN hookup working. The connection with Windows XP works just fine but with Linux not. I've taken all settings (SSID, Channel, IP address, gateway, subnet) from Windows and set the values in the /etc/conf.d/wireless and /etc/conf.d/net. The association with the access points works perfect, iwconfig shows a connection and everything is fine. But if I try to ping any host, including the gateway I get "Destination Host unreachable". So for now I'm stuck with Windows....
Anyone any idea what else could I try? I don't think it's a WLAN problem, rather at some other network layer.
I'm using the latest x86 version of baselayout.

Thanks,

Florian

[Redeeman]

you say iwconfig shows it has associated itself with the ap, you did run dhcpcd too, right? and also, did u get any dns records if you did run dhcpcd

[Horus107]

dhcpcd got a timeout. The resolv.conf shows the same address like gateway, 192.168.0.1

Thx,
Florian

[jamapii]

If there's a dhcp server, use it. If there isn't, pick an ip address to use

config_ap_name=( "dhcp" ) or
config_ap_name=( "192.168.0.123/24" )

If you don't have a default route:

gateway_ap_name="192.168.0.1" # possibly, I'm not sure about it

read more on http://dev.gentoo.org/~uberlord/net-book/


ap_name is the name of the access point, replace all nonalphanumeric characters with _

EDIT: Make sure your baselayout version is not 1.11.13, it should be something like 1.11.12-r4