I have finally given up. After some time, I have decided to ask for help. Basically, here is the environment and the problem. I should caveat this all works fine in Windows.
I have one router, and one access point. I am connecting to the AP. The AP is not a DHCP server. Nor does it provide DNS information. It is only the connection point. The IP for the router is .1 and the WAP is .2. My box is connecting using WPA2. I did obfuscate some of the information in the below content.
I am using a fresh install of SLED 11. I am also using NET MANAGER. When I boot, and put in the proper information, I get an IP address (.26) and can see the DNS servers (obtained from the router) and the netstat command shows that .1 is the default gateway. So this tells me I am clearly connecting to the WAP (as the below files also indicate). When I take this thing home and connect to my un-protected router directly, access is fine. I can surf all day. But at work, I am not working.
Below is the out put from the IWCONFIG command:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“WIFI_AP”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:21:29:E4:XX:F0
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=48/100 Signal level:-47 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And now the output from the IFCONFIG:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:D1:83:38:67
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:220 Base address:0x8000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4852 (4.7 Kb) TX bytes:4852 (4.7 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:44:18:09:5D
inet addr:192.168.1.26 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:44ff:fe18:95d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:394523 (385.2 Kb) TX bytes:13989 (13.6 Kb)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-16-44-18-09-5D-39-35-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Clearly, the hardware is working (went down this avenue already). I have also tried adding a network route to .2 as the first hop to no avail.
The PROBLEM: Once I boot up, all networks are unreachable. All pings result in no returned packets.
I appreciate any help anyone can offer. I am actually trying to move my org to a linux based environment, but can’t really take that up without getting my architecture to work. So please help.
Thanks in advance.