Wireless Nameserver Problem

I seem to be able to connect to my wireless router, and I get assiged a
local ip address. But, when I open my web browser and try to navigate
to a website, i can't get there (I get a website name unrecognized
message). I try pinging my ISP's nameserver address and get no
response. The nameserver address is in resolv.conf. Any idea what I
need to do to fix this problem?

FYI, I have an onboard ethernet wired card configured as eth0 (but not
plugged into a network) in addition to the wireless card configured as
eth1. I've tried turning off both cards (with ifdown) and then turning
back on only eth1 (with if up), but that doesn't seem to help.

Thanks!

Turn off the card that isn't wireless. Your machine can't find the DNS to do
the address lookup. Give the static IP of the DNS to your router and to your
machine.... also make sure the router is giving your machine the gateway
address.

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I seem to be able to connect to my wireless router, and I get assiged a
> local ip address. But, when I open my web browser and try to navigate
> to a website, i can't get there (I get a website name unrecognized
> message). I try pinging my ISP's nameserver address and get no
> response. The nameserver address is in resolv.conf. Any idea what I
> need to do to fix this problem?
>
> FYI, I have an onboard ethernet wired card configured as eth0 (but not
> plugged into a network) in addition to the wireless card configured as
> eth1. I've tried turning off both cards (with ifdown) and then turning
> back on only eth1 (with if up), but that doesn't seem to help.
>
> Thanks!
>

PC wrote:

> Turn off the card that isn't wireless. Your machine can't find the DNS to do
> the address lookup. Give the static IP of the DNS to your router and to your
> machine.... also make sure the router is giving your machine the gateway
> address.
>
> "

How can I make sure the router is giving my computer the gateway address? I
think that may be the problem. When I boot Win98 on the computer, the software
utility for my Linksys network card shows the router's IP address as the
gateway. I entered this same IP address in the configuration file for my
wireless card (configured as eth0), but that didn't help.

I think I'm a bit confused on how the connection gets made. There's the IP
address for the ISP's nameserver, then there's the IP address for my router,
then there's the IP address for my computer (my wireless interface card).
Where does the gateway figure in the connection?

Thanks!

In this same message base, see the message Hi, having trouble with
networking and the reply from Paul Black for some details.

The gateway is the router, but your Linux machine needs to know that.

If you don't run your own DNS, then you have to have the ISP's DNS
addresses.

I don't know your wireless card or settings, so I can't suggest further.

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> PC wrote:
>
> > Turn off the card that isn't wireless. Your machine can't find the DNS
to do
> > the address lookup. Give the static IP of the DNS to your router and to
your
> > machine.... also make sure the router is giving your machine the gateway
> > address.
> >
> > "
>
> How can I make sure the router is giving my computer the gateway address?
I
> think that may be the problem. When I boot Win98 on the computer, the
software
> utility for my Linksys network card shows the router's IP address as the
> gateway. I entered this same IP address in the configuration file for my
> wireless card (configured as eth0), but that didn't help.
>
> I think I'm a bit confused on how the connection gets made. There's the
IP
> address for the ISP's nameserver, then there's the IP address for my
router,
> then there's the IP address for my computer (my wireless interface card).
> Where does the gateway figure in the connection?
>
> Thanks!
>

PC wrote:

> Turn off the card that isn't wireless. Your machine can't find the DNS to do
> the address lookup. Give the static IP of the DNS to your router and to your
> machine.... also make sure the router is giving your machine the gateway
> address.
>

That was it!

For other wireless networking dummies out there besides myself, trying to
connect to a Linksys BEFW11S4 router via a Linksys WMP11 wireless card (Version
4 of the card, which works well on my system using Linuxant's "Driverloader"
software and the WindowsXP drivers that ship with the card), here are the steps
that finally worked for me on my linux computer running SuSE 8.2:

1. Turned off DHCP and assigned my wireless card a static ip address; netmask
2. Made sure my computer's firewall was configured for my wireless interface
card (interface "eth1" on my system).
3. Started wpa_supplicant - my router has wpa encryption enabled ("./[insert
full path]/wpa_supplicant -Bw -c/[insert full path]/wpa_supplicant.conf
-ieth1")
4. Turned off my wired ethernet interface card ("ifdown eth0")
5. Turned on my wireless interface card ("ifup eth1")
6. Configured the default gateway ("route add default gw [insert ip address of
the router]")

Thanks for the assist.