RE:error to load driver

> Joerg, thank you very much for your tip. I got through the driver 
> loading problem by replug the USB adapter or do a cold boot.
>
> However, I was still not able to make through the whole process, though 
> I am getting closer. Here is the new problem:
>
> After I loaded the driver and configured it with <iwconfig>, I was able 
> to ping my Linksys USB11 ver. 2.6 with the following command: <ping 
> 192.168.1.1>. All the packets are received. However, when I tried to 
> ping an outside address <ping 64.68.82.204>, I got error message:
>
> connect:network is unreachable
>
> That IP address is actually where google is, and it worked when I tried 
> to ping it on Windows.
SNIP
> 4. <route -n> returns following:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination        Gateway       Genmask            Flags Metric Ref Use 
> Iface
> 192.168.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0    U     0        0    
> 0    wlan0
> 169.254.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0        U     0        0    
> 0    l0
> 127.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0            U     0        
> 0    0    l0
SNIP
> Luke


Looks like you do not have a default gateway defined

route add default gw 192.168.1.0

should do the trick.

If your RedHat is anything like my Mandrake (and I think it is) then there 
should be a file called
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0  which holds the network config 
for each physical interface.
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/sysconfig.html

If you put a line in there
GATEWAYDEV=wlan0
then it should define the default route when the network starts.

HTH

derek

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