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I am having Dell inspiron 1545 laptop. When I connect to a wifi network, the connection gets established as I get the notification towards the right side of the screen.
I have set up ip properly according to the system administrator here. The proxy is set at the web browser level using Edit->preferences->Advanced->Network->Settings.
But inspite of this when I open Firefox, I get error message as:-
The proxy server is refusing connections.
iwconfig command returns result as follows:-
Code:
nakul@nakul-Inspiron-1545:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"it dept"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:F7:7C:7D:56
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
nakul@nakul-Inspiron-1545:~$
You have far too many unrelated things in here. You can not cover wifi drivers and connectivity to a proxy server in a single thing. You need to split these things down and isolate clearly where the issue is. Are you connected to wifi? are you able to ping the proxy etc.
You have far too many unrelated things in here. You can not cover wifi drivers and connectivity to a proxy server in a single thing. You need to split these things down and isolate clearly where the issue is.
Yes I have tried to now focus only on one issue,
connecting to internet using wifi network . I have made the changes to the original post accordingly.
Quote:
Originally Posted by acid_kewpie
Are you connected to wifi? are you able to ping the proxy etc.
Ping returns following result
Code:
root@nakul-Inspiron-1545:~# ping 172.16.99.99
PING 172.16.99.99 (172.16.99.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=11 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=12 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=13 Destination Host Unreachable
From 172.16.101.100 icmp_seq=14 Destination Host Unreachable
^Z
No, that doesn't show you're connected to the network, that shows you've been given a DHCP lease from somewhere, but there's no sign of anything on the network being reached. We can see that you can't reach your defined default gateway, so there's something pretty broken there somewhere.
Does your ARP cache shoudl any other local Ethernet devices at all? Can you ping anything else?
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