airport problem

[Jeff Burton]

I'm running YDL 2.3 and set up airport using the support doc on the YDL 
site.
it's on a 99 ibook.

i am using OSX 10.2's version of a software base station.
(internet sharing)

when I

/sbin/ifup eth1, IP information is determined fine and a
netstat -rn
shows that eth1 is indeed up and running.

However, when I try to connect to a website with mozilla or konquerer i 
get nothing...

If i use ncftp I can connect to ftp servers, but once connected I can't 
  view the files.. an ls boots me out... I get "remote host was not 
responding, closing down the session" when i try to enter another ls 
into the prompt in ncftp.


I had a similar problem when using eth0 on a static IP but that 
mysteriously solved itself....

The thing that I really don't get is that I did this a year ago on the 
same machine, also with YDL 2.3.  this is just a recent clean 
install...(I can't get YDL3 to go on this ibook...)

help!