Wireless woes

[Strider1066]

Hi, I can't figure out my wireless (a 2WIRE router/modem) problem. After running the below script both the KWiFiManager and iwconfig shows that my card is working. However, a ping fails. My main card is a bmc4318, but the result is the same with a Linksys pci card.

I've managed to get wireless working on another laptop under Kubuntu versions of Gutsy and Feisty but now that I'm running Hardy....

#!/bin/bash
iwconfig wlan0 essid "2WIRE178"
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 channel auto
iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M auto
iwconfig wlan0 key open s:"1234567890"
iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:ab:cd:ef:12:34
iwconfig wlan0 retry 7

iwconfig wlan0
ping -I wlan0 -c 5 google.com


steve@poohsPlace:~$ sudo ./startWireless
[sudo] password for steve:

<output>

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"2WIRE178"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:ab:cd:ef:12:34
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****
          Link Quality=75/100  Signal level=-39 dBm  Noise level=-71 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

PING google.com (72.14.207.99) from 192.168.1.66 wlan0: 56(84) bytes of data.
From poohs (192.168.1.66) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From poohs (192.168.1.66) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From poohs (192.168.1.66) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From poohs (192.168.1.66) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From poohs (192.168.1.66) icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4045ms, pipe 3

Any thought would be appreciated.

[Nepomuk]

I'm using Xubuntu Hardy and am therefore not quite sure, that you have absolutely the same network-packages installed as I do (Kubuntu has it's own packages in quite a few areas), but the normal route would be to try via the package "network-admin" instead of trying to set it up manually.
I've had problems like that in the past and I found, that somehow this package must be interfering with any console-based settings. Of course, if you want to do it manually, you can do so - but then I'd remove network-admin.

I'm not using WiFi with this computer as it's a Desktop and near to the router, so I'm quite limited in helping. But I'm trying my best :-D

Greetings,
Nepomuk