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wireless card connected, but no internet

Running a toshiba laptop w/ intel wireless 2100 card
Slack 10.2
2.6.15.3 kernel

I have installed the latest 2100 drivers, and along with that their recomendations of the latest ieee80211, and firmware.

All things have been installed with no errors.

Originally when i would use kwifiManager, it would show me connected to my network ssid, with a full strength signal, but no ip address.

looking through other threads is saw the recomendation to set the ip address myself to make sure it works, then worry about DHCP after.

So i used the following to set my address. This is the same address my laptop has always used when XP boots.
ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.170
This worked, and now my ip does show 192.168.2.170

But still no internet. When I run firefox or Konquer i basically get the server not found message.

I have used the ping command, to ping my desktop PC, and wireless router, and get results back.

I know it is probably a small setting I am forgeting.. any suggestions???

This is my ifconfig

Code:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F1:2F:74:4A  

          inet addr:192.168.2.170  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:22692 (22.1 Kb)  TX bytes:4258 (4.1 Kb)

          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 Memory:c2005000-c2005fff 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:3408 (3.3 Kb)  TX bytes:3408 (3.3 Kb)

This is my iwconfig

Code:

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"jnt.net"  Nickname:"jnt-laptop"

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0D:3A:73:60:15  

          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s  Tx-Power:16 dBm  

          Retry min limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-48 dBm  

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

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

another little tidbit

if I enter

Code:

http://192.168.2.1

in my browser it takes mr to my routers login screen. So I am connected to my network. The internet does work when I boot to XP, and obviously on my desktop, as this is where I am posting from

check your default gateway
it should be your router ;)

I set the default gateway myself in rc.inet1.conf

Here is is if it helps

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

#

# This file contains the configuration settings for network interfaces.

# If USE_DHCP[interface] is set to "yes", this overrides any other settings.

# If you don't have an interface, leave the settings null ("").



# You can configure network interfaces other than eth0,eth1... by setting

# IFNAME[interface] to the interface's name. If IFNAME[interface] is unset

# or empty, it is assumed you're configuring eth<interface>.



# Several other parameters are available, the end of this file contains a

# comprehensive set of examples.



# =============================================================================



# Config information for eth0:

IPADDR[0]=""

NETMASK[0]=""

USE_DHCP[0]="yes"

DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""



# Config information for eth1:

IPADDR[1]=""

NETMASK[1]=""

USE_DHCP[1]="yes"

DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""



# Config information for eth2:

IPADDR[2]=""

NETMASK[2]=""

USE_DHCP[2]=""

DHCP_HOSTNAME[2]=""



# Config information for eth3:

IPADDR[3]=""

NETMASK[3]=""

USE_DHCP[3]=""

DHCP_HOSTNAME[3]=""



# Default gateway IP address:

GATEWAY="192.168.2.1"



# Change this to "yes" for debugging output to stdout.  Unfortunately,

# /sbin/hotplug seems to disable stdout so you'll only see debugging output

# when rc.inet1 is called directly.

DEBUG_ETH_UP="no"



## Example config information for wlan0.  Uncomment the lines you need and fill

## in your info.  (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)

#IFNAME[4]="wlan0"

#IPADDR[4]=""

#NETMASK[4]=""

#USE_DHCP[4]="yes"

#DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="icculus-wireless"

#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"

#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""

#WLAN_ESSID[4]=BARRIER05

#WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed

##WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"

##WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"

##WLAN_KEY[4]="D5AD1F04ACF048EC2D0B1C80C7"

##WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="AuthMode=WPAPSK EncrypType=TKIP WPAPSK=7B1ABEEB5D197741923ED26727569C365E31212096A0EAFAD563B268BAD01CAF TxRate=0"

#WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"

#WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="ndiswrapper"



## Some examples of additional network parameters that you can use.

## Config information for wlan0:

#IFNAME[4]="wlan0"              # Use a different interface name nstead of

                                # the default 'eth4'

#HWADDR[4]="00:01:23:45:67:89"  # Overrule the card's hardware MAC address

#MTU[4]=""                      # The default MTU is 1500, but you might need

                                # 1360 when you use NAT'ed IPSec traffic.

#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"      # If you dont want /etc/resolv.conf overwritten

#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"          # If you don't want ntp.conf overwritten

#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"          # If you don't want the DHCP server to change

                                # your default gateway

#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""              # Request a specific IP address from the DHCP

                                # server

#WLAN_ESSID[4]=DARKSTAR        # Here, you can override _any_ parameter

                                # defined in rc.wireless.conf, by prepending

                                # 'WLAN_' to the parameter's name. Useful for

                                # those with multiple wireless interfaces.

#WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="AuthMode=WPAPSK EncrypType=TKIP WPAPSK=thekey TxRate=0"

                                # Some drivers require a private ioctl to be

                                # set through the iwpriv command. If more than

                                # one is required, you can place them in the

                                # IWPRIV parameter (space-separated, see the

                                # example).

"route -n"
"traceroute www.linuxquestions.org"
give us the output of these 2 commands

route -n

Code:

Kernel IP routing table

Destination    Gateway        Genmask        Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface

127.0.0.0      0.0.0.0        255.0.0.0      U    0      0        0 lo

traceroute www.linuxquestions.org

Code:

unknown host www.linuxquestions.org

i ran route -n again
this time I manually set my IP address again as 192.168.2.170
it added this line

Code:

192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1

I notice my Gateway is O.O.O.O
yet I have set it as 192.168.2.1 in rc.inet1.conf

This must be the problem

hi, i think i had the same problem until a few minutes ago. have you checked your name server yet?
i had to set it to the ip-address of my router and now i have an internet connection with linux as well as windows.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sir_killerdepp

where did you set it???

there is a button "wireless connection" on the panel at the top of my desktop which opens a menu where i chose "configure network settings". i was asked for the root password and then there is a "network card configuration overview" where i chose my wireless card and "edit" and then there was a button "host name and name server".

since i'm total newbie to linux i don't know if it makes any difference that my distribution is suse10.0 and that i'm using gnome. but there's got to be someone on here who really knows what i was doing...

vi /etc/resolv.conf
put a line:

Quote:

nameserver <ip_of_your_dns_server>

also:
u have no default gw!
type that command:
route add default gw <dsl_modem_ip>

seems i solved it by adding

dhcpcd eth1 new

into the script line of my config setup menu.

I just have to hit activate everytime i log into kde and want wi-fi

better then nothing for now.