WLAN troubles

Derick Rethans openmoko at derickrethans.nl
Wed Aug 27 17:52:49 CEST 2008


On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Al Johnson wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >
> > I received my freerunner last weekend, and liking it sofar. I've had a
> > play with wifi - and although the freerunning sees the networks just
> > fine (with iwlist eth0 scan) and I can connect to the network as well -
> > I get a DHCP lease, with nameservers and all, the route is correct too.
> > However, I can't do any sort of connection - nor ping. I've looked
> > around on the wiki and list archives, but I can't find why it is not
> > working. Does any of you have any hint at were to look at to debug this
> > issue?
> 
> As others have said, the problem is probably routing. If both usb0 and eth0 
> are on the same subnet then you will have problems. you can fix it by 
> fiddling with the routing, but it is probably easier just to use 'ifdown 
> usb0' before you start the wifi connection, and 'ifup usb0' when you need to 
> use the usb connection, while the wifi isn't connected.

I was pretty sure that the routes where okay - I did just double check 
and it's all fine: http://files.derickrethans.nl/Screenshot-5.png

I've check that resolv.conf is correct (same as on the laptop that uses 
the same WLAN), but still no dice. It gets the IP address just fine 
through DHCP, but *no* packets go over the line - I can't even ping the 
gateway (though I can ping the device's IP).

Now I do remember that when upgrading my kernel it mentioned something 
about wlan modules - but I do not remember the extend of those messages.

Any other ideas what the issue could be? I am still on 2007.7 - as how 
it came with the phone, but I've opkg update & opkg upgrade'd it all 
today. Any other ideas?

regards,
Derick
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