Wireless Routing Problem FC3 - no internet

[moodamultani]

Hi all,

I am trying to configure wireless connection and internet browser on my laptop using Fedora Core 3 and Linksys wireless network work adapter WPC54G. The wireless ADSL router (BT Voyager 2091) is connected to a desktop through ethernet cable.

I did this earlier, but changed my broadband provider that has caused confusions, partly due to lack of my knowledge.

The output of my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:2 shows the following setting of wireless network that uses a WEP key:

GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1:2
HWADDR=00:02:8a:b6:aa:0b
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=194.168.8.100
DOMAIN=
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=BTVOYAGER2091-7D
CHANNEL=5
MODE=Managed
RATE=2Mb/s

I set the IP address 194.168.8.100 manually....how?.....After so many attempts I do not remember correctly....I think the wireless connection got this address and I continued with this address. I ping this address and get a successful connection. Somehow, I get a feeling that wireless connection is there.

While setting up, I followed the instruction in one of the tutorial articles that advised of using ndiswrapper to install driver, and iwconfig to set up wireless network card. I completed this set up using the FC3 graphical utility named System Settings -> Network and entered the WEP key to the network.

Default gateway for my router is 192.168.1.1. I am interested to know how the IP addressing is done in my network, and what is the significance of subnet masks. What command on FC3 tells us the IP address of my wireless network and how do I know what subnet mask to use?

Any help, I shall greatly appreciate,

Regards,
moodamultani

[moodamultani]

Oh, one thing more, when I ping 192.168.1.1 (Default gateway), I get the 'The Network is Unreachable' error.

moodamultani

[carstenson]

Subnet masks are very significant. You have this computer defined on a different network than your gateway. The best way is to probably change this ip addres from a 192.168.8.X number to a 192.168.1.X number. The subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 says that the first three octets of the ip address define the network. The last octet defines the device on the network.

Another option is to change your netmask to 255.255.0.0. This says that only the first two octets define the network. The main thing is that all devices on the network *should* have the same netmask, because the netmask defines what *is* the network.