Wireless network connects fine but can't resolve hosts

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I’ve just installed opensuse and the network connects fine to my wireless router. I have no problem pinging the router or other computers on the network, but I can’t connect to anything outside my local network. (the network card is a well supported intel 3945)

My route output looks like this:

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.0.0.0        *               255.255.255.0   U     2    0        0 wlan0

Which seems different from another laptop running Arch linux which gives:

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.0.0.0        *               255.255.255.0   U     304    0        0 wlan0
default         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    304    0        0 wlan0

The big problem here is that I don’t have access to wired network. At least not as far as I can see. So it looks like I can’t just do an update, which as far as I understand might solve the problem. Does anyone know what I can possibly try?

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On 12/27/2009 03:36 PM, arnfred wrote:
>
> I’ve just installed opensuse and the network connects fine to my
> wireless router. I have no problem pinging the router or other computers
> on the network, but I can’t connect to anything outside my local
> network. (the network card is a well supported intel 3945)
>
> My route output looks like this:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
> --------------------
>
>
> Which seems different from another laptop running Arch linux which
> gives:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 304 0 0 wlan0
> default 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 304 0 0 wlan0
> --------------------

If you are using DHCP, then you need to manually add the command

sudo /sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1

You then should be able to update the software. After you do that, delete your
wireless connection and recreate it. Wifi should then work.