LinuxQuestions.org - Realtek-based USB adapter in Slack 12.1

Okay. Not new to Slackware, but new enough to not know what I'm doing. Been using it for about 4 months.

I recently was forced to switch to a wireless network due to a lack of wired connections where I live. So I bought a router and a wireless adapter and all that good stuff. I got the driver installed fine and I can connect to the network without any hitches. My router works and my adapter works.

Of course, Firefox refuses to load any pages. I typed in ping 64.233.167.147 (google.com) in Terminal and it pinged and returned fine, with normal operation. I'm just curious as to what I've done wrong. It seems like I would be connected to the internet, just denied HTTP access. Pidgin refuses to connect as well, so it doesn't appear to be a FF-related issue.

My network is unencrypted, due to the fact that I am merely trying to get it to work at this point.

For those of you interested, my adapter is the TrendNET424UB. I know, it's pretty bad, but money was a serious constraint.

I'll post some necessary commands:

iwlist scan

Code:

wlan0    Scan completed :

          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1D:7E:C9:76:1B

                    ESSID:"nh"

                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g

                    Mode:Managed

                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)

                    Quality:40/100  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm

                    Encryption key:off

                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s

                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s

                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s

                    Extra:bcn_int=100

                    Extra:atim=0

iwconfig wlan0

Code:

wlan0    IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"nh"  Nickname:"nh"

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:1D:7E:C9:76:1B  

          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s  Tx-Power:20 dBm  Sensitivity=0/3  

          RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:40/100  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

ifconfig wlan0

Code:

wlan0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:d1:3d:bf:94  

          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::214:d1ff:fe3d:bf94/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:15384 (15.0 KiB)  TX bytes:6994 (6.8 KiB)

lsusb does list the USB adapter and ndiswrapper -l shows everything installed. But we knew that already, didn't we?

I'm just wondering why I can ping google but can't open the page in Firefox. It's moderately annoying, because this is my main computer and I would very much like to have internet access on it. Replies are appreciated.

Edit: I know the problem is not an access problem at the router, because I was able to get online with a windows laptop (that's what I am using right now) by simply clicking and connecting. It flusters me that Linux couldn't be as easy as Windows, but if I wanted to have an easy time using my computer, well, I wouldn't be using Slack.