Madwifi / Wireless Problem [RESOLVED]

[Eckzow]

So I used to use wireless on this machine, some D-Link card that was well supported by the madwifi drivers. The signal in my house sucks due to the materials it was built with (metal mesh in the walls) but I had a signal that worked fine for ~4 months. Then I used a wired connection for ~4 months, and now I'm back on wireless.

Problem is, madwifi isn't taking a liking to me anymore. Oh, I made sure the drivers were recompiled with my current kernel (I've dropped all the way back to 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 since that was the last kernel I'm pretty sure I know it was working with, and madwifi drivers 20050420 since that's the newest non-hard-masked for amd64) and lo and behold they modprobe just fine, no errors in dmesg. iwconfig configures the channel, essid, and wep key without incident (though it complains that its using wireless extensions 18 and supports up to 17, but iirc it always said that). ifconfig up it and it gets a decent connection, dhcpcd and it gets an IP address, DNS info gets filled in /etc/resolv.conf.

Problem is, if I do "ping www.google.com" it times out with an unknown host error. If I straight up ping my gateway ("ping 192.168.1.1") it just hang, sending packets out into oblivion and never recieving any back. ifconfig show steadily rising packet transmission counts this entire time, its just that apps don't ever see the net.

What gives? I mean, I've got an IP... I've got DNS... wtf mate?
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[bjlockie]

[Eckzow]

Yeah, my system setup is identical except for one thing that I've changed.

The Firewall.

So, conclusively, I'm a dumbass. Thanks for trying to help.
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