Hi guys,

I'm having problem with Firefox and seamonkey or any web browser I have on my Slackware 12. I do have a WRT54GP2 Linksys wireless router.

I'm using dhclient wlan0 to connect to my router and I think I have all the configuration I need to connect to it coz I can even log in remotely to it. But when I try to browse the net it says that cannot connect to the server. I think there's only a few thing I missed to touch.
IP, subnet, gateway are diplaying all okay.

I succesfully connected before using the same config I guess but I just happened to re-install my slackware for some reason.

Please help

thanks

Did you add nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf?

For example:

no, not yet.

I will now that you have given me idea.

one thing I want to ask you though.

4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are figures supposed to be exactly what I need to encode? Sorry about the stupid question but it's gonna be my first time messing up with resolv.conf


Thanks

I let you guys know what's gonna happen.

you guys are geniuses. Thanks a lot guys specially to Frank. I put it exactly the way you post it.

Ciao

I'm glad it worked for you. You might get faster name resolution by adding the actual DNS addresses instead of 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2

If you log into your router, the setup page will usually list the actual primary and secondary nameserver's IP addresses. I was going to edit my original post to mention that, but I figured I'd find out soon enough if you needed it or not.

Frank could you explain what 4.2.2.2 means?

Cos, I always thought that local ip addresses are of type 10.*.. , 172.*.*.*, or 192.* etc.

I have never actually done wlan , so please help me out...

These are alternate DNS servers, not local IP addresses. I think there are 6

4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6

When you use netconfig, PV actually mentions entering 4.2.2.1 as a suggested server. I don't think this is for any reason other than many people won't remember or know off the top of their head the primary and secondary DNS servers specified by their service provider. This way you can enter one which will work - though perhaps won't be the fastest one to use.

My resolv.conf gets edited to add my ISP's servers to the top of the list:

search local
nameserver 71.243.0.12
nameserver 68.237.161.12
nameserver 4.2.2.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2

ohh ok thanks