jpeter1978
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7
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 Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:16 am Post subject: Strange wireless connection |
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Hi all,
I've finally got a bootable version of Gentoo on my IBM T30 laptop. I used a Knoppix Live CD to do the install. To get internet under Knoppix, I downloaded and installed to my harddrive the madwifi drivers for my wireless card (Linksys WPC51AB). After inserting the three modules (wlan, ath_hal, and ath_pci) into the kernel, I do the following to start it up:
| Code: | # ifconfig ath0 up
# iwconfig ath0 essid ESSID
# dhcpcd ath0
# route add default gw GATEWAY_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS
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and I have the following in my /etc/resolv.conf file:
| Code: | nameserver DNS_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS
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While this all works well and good under Knoppix, when I try it under my newly installed version of Gentoo, things don't go so well. I can get ping to internet sites (e.g. www.google.com), but with high packet loss (around 75%). However, when I ping my gateway, I get maybe 1% packet loss. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Sorry if some of the information here seems irrelavent, I just don't want to end up reposting because I left something important out. However, in the case I did, please let me know.
TIA for any help
John Peterson |
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Networking & Security
