Wireless network DHCP doesn't retrieve gateway

[Jeff Clemens]

So I seem to have a problem lately.  I have an ipaq 3970 and a SanDisk ConnectPlus wireless card.  It seems to connect fine with networks, and even gets an IP address via DHCP, but never seems to set the gateway when connecting to a network, thus I can communicate with any machine on the local network, but can't get to the internet. 

 

Cant generate a log right now, as there aren't any wireless networks where I'm at (I'm using Bluetooth networking at the moment, which seems to work just fine using DHCP), but can get one when I get home this evening. 

 

Does anyone have any idea why this would be?  it makes using hotspots pretty difficult, as I have to DHCP to find out the subnet and IP address, then hope nobody grabs that address as I manually set it up using the same IP and guessing the gateway (usually the .1 address works as a gateway in most cases).

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff

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[bradpitcher]

I'm having the same trouble.  How exactly do you manually point your device to the gateway?  Did you ever find out what was causing this problem?
I'm using an hx4700 with the built in wireless.

[Chris Weiss-2]

as a temp fix without disabling dhcp, run "route add default gw x.x.x.x"
it's odd that bt works and wifi doesn't.  does it not work on any
network at all?
On 6/1/06, bradpitcher <bradpitcher@...> wrote:

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> I'm having the same trouble.  How exactly do you manually point your device
> to the gateway?  Did you ever find out what was causing this problem?
> I'm using an hx4700 with the built in wireless.
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[bradpitcher]

I'm sorry, I actually didn't try bluetooth networking, so I guess my problem wasn't exactly the same.  My problem was just that I couldn't see outside my local network and your post resolved that perfectly.   Thank you very much, Chris!  Oh, and I also had to add my dns servers to my resolv.conf file.  I think all this may be due to a very immature wireless driver (just announced on the mailing list two days ago).

[Chris Weiss-2]

I'm not sure how you could get an IP from dhcp and not the rest, I
don't think that has anything to do with the wifi driver but with the
dhcp client.  maybe it's not running as root and ifconfig is suid but
route isn't?  just guessing here

On 6/2/06, bradpitcher <bradpitcher@...> wrote:

>
> I'm sorry, I actually didn't try bluetooth networking, so I guess my problem
> wasn't exactly the same.  My problem was just that I couldn't see outside my
> local network and your post resolved that perfectly.   Thank you very much,
> Chris!  Oh, and I also had to add my dns servers to my resolv.conf file.  I
> think all this may be due to a very immature wireless driver (just announced
> on the mailing list two days ago).
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[bradpitcher]

I'm sorry.  I have unintentionally hijacked this thread.  I didn't use dhcp, I assigned a static ip.  I just didn't know how to set the gateway.