can't ping beyond router

I have this very weird problem.

I have a linksys router connected to a dsl modem to the outer world.
Internally, I have a pc with static ip 192.168.1.1 and a laptop
with a wireless card.

The pc connection works fine. I'm sending this message from it.

The wireless connection works fine if I disable WEP encription.

With WEP enabled, the laptop does get an IP address (192.168.1.101) via
dhcp from the router, and I can ping the router. However, I can't ping
anything beyond the router. No, it's not a nameserver problem, I can't
ping even if I use IP addresses rather than names.

Oh, yeah, and in XP, with the exact same settings (as far as I can
tell), the wireless connection is up and running, so I assume the
router is properly configured.

I'm pulling hair over this one. I'd provide any information that might
be useful, but I can't even understand how this thing is possible at
all. Does anybody have any idea?

For what it's worth, I'm running Fedora core 1 (kernel 2.4.22-2129).
The card is a linksys WPC11 V3, and the router BEFW11S4 v4,
with the latest firmware upgrade.

Silviu Minut wrote:

> I have this very weird problem.
>
> I have a linksys router connected to a dsl modem to the outer world.
> Internally, I have a pc with static ip 192.168.1.1 and a laptop
> with a wireless card.
>
> The pc connection works fine. I'm sending this message from it.
>
> The wireless connection works fine if I disable WEP encription.
>
> With WEP enabled, the laptop does get an IP address (192.168.1.101) via
> dhcp from the router, and I can ping the router. However, I can't ping
> anything beyond the router. No, it's not a nameserver problem, I can't
> ping even if I use IP addresses rather than names.
>
> Oh, yeah, and in XP, with the exact same settings (as far as I can
> tell), the wireless connection is up and running, so I assume the
> router is properly configured.
>
> I'm pulling hair over this one. I'd provide any information that might
> be useful, but I can't even understand how this thing is possible at
> all. Does anybody have any idea?
>
> For what it's worth, I'm running Fedora core 1 (kernel 2.4.22-2129).
> The card is a linksys WPC11 V3, and the router BEFW11S4 v4,
> with the latest firmware upgrade.

Maybe you forgot to set default route on your workstation..
try: route add default gw <IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_GATEWAY>
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On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:26:17 +0100, Sandro Mangovski wrote:

> Silviu Minut wrote:
>
>> I have this very weird problem.
>>
>> I have a linksys router connected to a dsl modem to the outer world.
>> Internally, I have a pc with static ip 192.168.1.1 and a laptop
>> with a wireless card.
>>
>> The pc connection works fine. I'm sending this message from it.
>>
>> The wireless connection works fine if I disable WEP encription.
>>
>> With WEP enabled, the laptop does get an IP address (192.168.1.101) via
>> dhcp from the router, and I can ping the router. However, I can't ping
>> anything beyond the router. No, it's not a nameserver problem, I can't
>> ping even if I use IP addresses rather than names.
>>
>> Oh, yeah, and in XP, with the exact same settings (as far as I can
>> tell), the wireless connection is up and running, so I assume the
>> router is properly configured.
>>
>> I'm pulling hair over this one. I'd provide any information that might
>> be useful, but I can't even understand how this thing is possible at
>> all. Does anybody have any idea?
>>
>> For what it's worth, I'm running Fedora core 1 (kernel 2.4.22-2129).
>> The card is a linksys WPC11 V3, and the router BEFW11S4 v4,
>> with the latest firmware upgrade.
>
> Maybe you forgot to set default route on your workstation..
> try: route add default gw <IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_GATEWAY>

That was it, thanks! It was the wrong gateway, reminiscent
from when I was connecting the laptop to the outer world via a
masquerading on a computer on the 192.168.2.0 network. How silly of me!
Thanks again!