Wirelss Not Browsing

i've just installed 10.3, and the wireless thing shows that it's connected to my home wireless, but nothing works, internet browser, pidgin. etc etc...

what's going on :blink:

Hello Darkshrimp, welcome to the Forums.

Can you post a few diagnostics for us please:
Open a console and enter su to get rootly powers then enter these one at a time:
ifconfig
iwconfig
route
cat /etc/resolv.conf

When that's done, use your mouse to block/highlight the entire session you had in the console and copy/paste it into a forum reply. That should tell us a bit what's going on.

Swerdna

linux-i6bs:/home/and # ifconfig
eth0******Link encap:Ethernet**HWaddr 00:12:F0:E2:02:B4**
**********inet addr:192.168.1.100**Bcast:192.168.1.255**Mask:255.255.255.0
**********inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fee2:2b4/64 Scope:Link
**********UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST**MTU:1500**Metric:1
**********RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
**********TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
**********collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
**********RX bytes:19889 (19.4 Kb)**TX bytes:10636 (10.3 Kb)
**********Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 Memory:d0001000-d0001fff 

eth1******Link encap:Ethernet**HWaddr 00:40:D0:77:3E:C1**
**********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)
**********Interrupt:10 Base address:0xcb00 

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:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
**********TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
**********collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
**********RX bytes:820 (820.0 b)**TX bytes:820 (820.0 b)

linux-i6bs:/home/and # iwconfig
lo********no wireless extensions.

eth0******IEEE 802.11g**ESSID:"default"**
**********Mode:Managed**Frequency:2.437 GHz**Access Point: 00:11:95:64:D4:58** 
**********Bit Rate:54 Mb/s** Tx-Power=20 dBm** Sensitivity=8/0**
**********Retry limit:7** RTS thr:off** Fragment thr:off
**********Encryption key:off
**********Power Management:off
**********Link Quality=88/100**Signal level=-35 dBm**Noise level=-86 dBm
**********Rx invalid nwid:0**Rx invalid crypt:0**Rx invalid frag:0
**********Tx excessive retries:0**Invalid misc:0** Missed beacon:11

eth1******no wireless extensions.

linux-i6bs:/home/and # route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination**** Gateway******** Genmask******** Flags Metric Ref****Use Iface
192.168.1.0**** *************** 255.255.255.0** U**** 0******0********0 eth0
loopback*********************** 255.0.0.0****** U**** 0******0********0 lo
default******** 192.168.1.1**** 0.0.0.0******** UG****0******0********0 eth0
linux-i6bs:/home/and # cat /etc/resolv.conf
### BEGIN INFO
#
# Modified_by:**NetworkManager
# Process:******/usr/bin/NetworkManager
# Process_id:** 2492
#
### END INFO



nameserver 192.168.1.1

hopefully i did that correctly

This shows that you have a router at the IP address 192.168.1.1 and your wireless card has an IP address of 192.168.1.100. You should be able to browse the internet via that card.

It perhaps needs to be configured in Yast for security and also almost certainly needs to know the IP addresses of the name servers supplied by your ISP.

have a look at this pic to see inserting the Name servers: http://www.swerdna.net.au/confignic/nic7.png


Swerdna

thank you, it seems to work now

but the internet is extremely slow :S and it's not the internet that's slow, because i'm currently on my desktop and it's adsl2 speed, while on the laptop (opensuse) it crawls...

on the properties place, it shows my wireless speed at 54mb/s

is that right? :huh:

[edit] and pidgin doesn't work. lol, and some sites just times out because it doesn't load >.<

Hi
Regarding 54 and slow: I don't know anything about your wireless card so I can't comment

I've seen advice to turn off IPv6, and I've seen users reply that it helps enormously to do that. I've also seen arguments that to turn off IPv6 is irrelevant. Try it and see.

Swerdna