I’ve been having a weird problem on my Tumbleweed install. This started happening a few weeks ago, and just today I made a USB stick with the most recent build so I could update everything, and my problem hasn’t gone away.
I’m able to connect to the wifi network and am assigned an IP address, but I can’t actually get an internet connection. I can ping my router and even access it’s GUI in the browser, but nothing else works. I’ve tried adding the Google nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf, but that didn’t resolve (heh) anything. Also, ethernet connections aren’t an option.
I have to copy this output by hand as I’m typing this on a different computer for obvious reasons, so if you can’t take my word for it that the output of “ip a” shows that I’ve been given an IP via dhcp, just let me know and I can copy the relevant bits.
lnx-jstanley: sudo route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 600 0 0 wlp3s0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 600 0 0 wlp3s0
lnx-jstanley: sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
wlp3s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"The Promised LAN"
MODE:Managed FREQUENCY:5.2 GHz Access Point: 60:E3:27:3A:03:A8
Bit Rate=6 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=43/70 Signal level=-67 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:24 Missed beacon:0
enp0s25 no wireless extension
If you guys need any other output, just let me know.
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You can test name resolution without making changes to your /etc/resolv.conf.
Run nslookup in a root console
nslookup
You can test any FQDN or IP address(reverse lookup) by simply typing the FQDN, for instance
www.opensuse.org
A successful result will return an IP address for the FQDN you entered. If it fails, then you can specify a different server by typing “server” followed by an IP address, for example the following which changes your DNS server name resolution to a Google server
server 8.8.8.8
After pointing to your new DNS server, you can repeat querying for a FQDN
Depending on the results of above, you can either focus your effort on configuring a working DNS or look elsewhere for a possible cause of your problems.
Thanks for all the responses. hcvv was right in that I DO have an internet connection - as I am able to ping the Google nameservers - so it appears that I have DNS problems. This is a good first step. I deleted /etc/resolv.conf before doing anything else (per malcomlewis’ suggestion), so I was able to ping the Google ns and such after the fact.
There’s some output from ip addr and nslookup at the bottom. I have already tried adding the Google nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf, so what are the next steps in configuring a working DNS?
EDIT: I added the google NS back into /etc/resolv.conf and now everything works. I guess the combination of deleting, rebooting and re-adding did the trick. Thanks for helping me get here and teaching me some new troubleshooting steps!
Hi
So is the wifi access point your connecting to issuing out DNS (assuming DHCP), or is this a static ip address configured in Network Manager or wicked?
Okay, I spoke too soon about ALL my problems being resolved. It seems that when I connect to my work’s VPN, these (possibly still DNS?) issues come back. I do receive an IP on a new interface when I connect to the VPN, and gnome indicates that the connection was successful, but I’m unable to connect to or ping any of our servers.
RE malcomlewis: this is DHCP as far as my computer is concerned. I previously reserved an IP address for it in the router settings, but I disabled it when I was trying to fix these problems
