Airport config - Almost there (I guess)

[Kristian T.]

Hi all.

I still can=B9t get my airport to do, as I would like it to do (ie connect me
to the Internet). I have read every article in this mailinglist concerning
airport configuration, and it has helped me quite a lot, but now I=B9m
stuck... Please help.

I have a tangerine iBook with a =B3unextreme=B2 airport card. I'm trying to
connect to my extreme basestation (the original broke down so I had no
choice but to buy the extreme one) which is connected to an ADSL connection
with a static IP.

When I run OS X, I have no problems using the airport.

Through the airport admin tool in OSX I have retrieved the following
information:
(for privacy reasons I=B9ve blurred some of it)

IP: (static) 80.XXX.XX.253
Router: 80. XXX.XX.241
Subnet: 255.255.255.240
DNS: 10.0.1.1
KEY: myKeyInHex

Back in YDL:

The latest of many editions of my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
looks like this:

DEVICE=3Deth1
BOOTPROTO=3Dstatic
ONBOOT=3DYES
USERCTL=3Dyes
IPADDR=3D80.XXX.XX.253
NETMASK=3D255.255.255.240
DNS1=3D10.0.1.1
GATEWAY=3D80. XXX.XX.241
TYPE=3DWireless
Rate=3DAuto
ESSID=3D=B9my network name=B9
KEY=3D=B9myKey=B9

When I restart my network (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop and start), I get
=B3Bringing up interface eth1 - OK=B2 - but when I try to point Mozilla to
Google (or other sites), I get: =B3www.google.com could not be found. Please
check the name and try again=B2.

When I do netstat =ADrn I get the following:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags [...]    Iface
80.XXX.XX.240   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.240 U     40  0  0  eth1
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     40  0  0  lo
0.0.0.0         80.XXX.XX.241   0.0.0.0         UG    40  0  0  eth1

When I run /sbin/iwconfig eth1 i get the following:

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 14 of
Wireless extensions, while this program is using version 13.
Some Things may be broken

eth1
    IEE802.11-DS ESSID:"my network name" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2,457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
    Bit Rate: 11Mb/s    Tx-Power=3D15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
    Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off     Fragment thr:off
    Encryption key:myKey
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:0/92   Signal level:134/153    Noise level:134/153
    Rx invalid nwid:0   Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0   Missed Beacon:0

There are a couple of things here that look fishy to me: 1) the localhost
nickname. 2) the 6x44 Access Point and 3) the 0.0.0.0 destination in the
routing table. (the latter I have tried to remove using "route del default
gw", but that didn't change the situation for the better).

Any suggestions, ideas or even better solutions will be more than welcome.

Thanks.

- Kristian T.