[Madwifi-users] Can't route via public hotspots

[C.G. <sky...@ya...>]

First of all, thank you and congratulations for
developing madwifi.

That being said, I use an atheros PCMCIA card on a
laptop with mandriva 2007. I can connect to another
linux wifi hub, ping all the hosts present on my net,
access all the local sites, etc.. So far, so good.

But, when I thrive to connect to public wifi hotspots,
The access to internet seems forbidden. However, dhcp
does correctly its job and I can ping and access the
default gateway and hosts along the same network as
me. I have changed the mtu and the metric of the ath0
interface, but without success. wireshark shows me
that no answer is returned to my ICMP requests.

However, when I make the same experiment with another
laptop equiped with another wifi chip: mandriva 2007 +
INFOPROMM chip + ndiswrapper driver, the internet
access works...

Any idea ?

Thank you in advance for your answer


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