Hi there,

First, I post this under "General" b/c I have the same problem with ethernet and wireless, and it does not seem to be a distribution-specific problem (I have slack 12.2).

I suddenly cannot connect to the internet from work and at home with my laptop. Both ethernet and wireless won't work. I still get an IP address, and can also ping it, but cannot ping other addresses. What befuddles me that it happened today at work and at home, that it worked fine at both places before, and that I just connected to the internet yesterday at an airport. I have not installed any new programs, nor have we changed our internet provider etc. My girlfriend's laptop (Windows -- gnnn) still can connect to the internet without problems.

I'm using wicd 1.5.4 and it worked fine so far.

I would be grateful for any ideas what could be the reason.

Cheers,

STephan

Check if the default gateway is correct.
Post the output of "sudo /sbin/ifconfig" and "sudo /sbin/route".
Post the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf.

To test if dns is resolving hostnames correctly try:
getent hosts www.google.com

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the slow response, the laptop is at work, and I have to use a different computer to post. Below are the outputs, hope they are instructive.

-- Stephan



sudo /sbin/ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0d:77:a8:08
inet addr:141.211.139.232 Bcast:141.211.139.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe77:a808/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:447550 (437.0 KiB) TX bytes:2972 (2.9 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:400 (400.0 B) TX bytes:400 (400.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:77:10:d8:2d
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-77-10-D8-2D-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)



sudo /sbin/route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
141.211.139.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 141.211.139.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


Contents of /etc/resolv.conf

search pdxwifi.com
nameserver 65.106.1.196
nameserver 65.106.7.196


Contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf

#
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
#
# The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
# entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
# up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
# (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
# next entry.
#
# Legal entries are:
#
# nisplus or nis+ Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
# nis or yp Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
# dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
# files Use the local files
# [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far
#

# passwd: files nis
# shadow: files nis
# group: files nis

passwd: compat
group: compat

hosts: files dns
networks: files

services: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
bootparams: files

automount: files
aliases: files



getent hosts www.google.com

No output (i.e., the program processed for a while, then did not print any output, no error message either).