'ping' of hostap pc based

[Jarmie Espuerta]

helo,

after a lot of struggle i have successfully get my Zcomax Xl-325H card 
as an access point using the latest driver which is "hostap-0.0.1" under 
the kernel linux-2.4.20 running on RedHat 7.3... everything is okay... 
but why is that my client cannot 'ping' my IP address? he can 
acknowledge my hostap pc based already through the command 'iwconfig'

i set my IP address as 192.168.41.1 and here's here's my network result:

bash # ifconfig
/eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:76:72:82:51
          inet addr:10.10.6.33  Bcast:10.10.6.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:14990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:7027835 (6.7 Mb)  TX bytes:19893 (19.4 Kb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xa000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3360 (3.2 Kb)  TX bytes:3360 (3.2 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
          inet addr:192.168.41.1  Bcast:192.168.41.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:23 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:688 (688.0 b)  TX bytes:3384 (3.3 Kb)
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x100/

bash # iwconfig
/wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"dmr"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:-36 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:32  Invalid misc:5000   Missed beacon:0/


on my client side..... with an IP address 192.168.41.2.. here's the 
result as well..
bash# iwconfig
/wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"dmr"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:-36 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:32  Invalid misc:5000   Missed beacon:0/
 
if he can have my mac address on the access point already how come we 
could not 'ping' each other?

best regrds,
jarmie