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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:11:20 -0500
From:      William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca>
To:        Bruce Mackay <brucem128@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wireless networking
Message-ID:  <20031125111120.GA50097@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031124062609.7f3ccdb7.brucem128@comcast.net>
References:  <20031124065139.GA95655@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <20031124062609.7f3ccdb7.brucem128@comcast.net>

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:26:09AM -0500, Bruce Mackay wrote:

>	I'm no networking guru but I had similar issues trying to get my network up and running.  I ran "route add default 192.168.1.1" at the command prompt which started to let me ping my router.  I guess in your case you probably need 192.168.100.1.  You may have already done this though.
>
>	Another thing I found that was to ping names (yahoo.com) I had to set my /etc/resolv.conf with
>search <your domain>
>nameserver <put in your ips dns address>

It was the route add default 192.168.1.1 (the wireless router, where I
had been trying to use 192.168.0.1, which is the network gateway) that
did the trick.  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William



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