Hi,
I am having terrible trouble finding a linux os that works on my new Sony Vaio laptop. My wireless seems to be functioning in OpenSuse 11.04 and I can see all the available networks in my neighbourhood. In spite of that I cannot connect to internet and cannot access the router interface either. I have no trouble connecting using my mobile phone tethering, even wirelessly. Would anybody be able to help me please? Im not that good with the terminal but can copy and paste quite well if necessary.:shame:
Thank you.
Hello welcome here.
A few questions to mae things clear.
You say you have OpenSuse 11.04, I assume you mean openSUSE 11.4. Is that correct.
You say you are “not that good with the terminal”. That means to me that you are using a GUI deskop environment… Can you please tell which one (KDE, Gnome, other)?
In spite of that I cannot connect to internet and cannot access the router interface either.
Well when you can not connet to the Wifi router, it is of course no surprise that you can not connect to systems on the Internet.
I can see all the available networks in my neighbourhood
Can you explain that. I assume that you mean that you use some tool on your system and that it tells you that it found several networks.
Then you tried to connect to one. Tell please what you did and where you got stuck.
Please post the output (yes from a terminal) of
/sbin/ifconfig -a
You being new hear, we like that output (inclusing the treminal prompts before and after and the command as given above) copied/pasted from the terminal in between CODE tags. Read this please: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/advanced-how-faq-read-only/451526-posting-code-tags-guide.html
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry, it is 11.4. The desktop is Gnome 2.3.
The puzzling thing for me is that I have a clear wireless network icon in the bottom right corner. Strong signal coming from my router and others in the neighborhood. The adapter light is on but when I click on firefox or anything to do with the internet it cannot find the server. I’ll try the quote thing now. Bear in mind I am connected to the internet wirelessly with my mobile phone.
jitka@linux-yjx1:~> /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F0:BF:97:E7:D4:EE
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:47 Base address:0x4000
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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:340 (340.0 b) TX bytes:340 (340.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:53:2E:A3:DB:F3
inet addr:192.168.1.45 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::8a53:2eff:fea3:dbf3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6602 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11479479 (10.9 Mb) TX bytes:845360 (825.5 Kb)
Thanks
jitka
Thus you are using network manager. I do not use Gnome nor network manager, but from your listing we see that you have an IP adddress on wlan0, thus you seem to have had connection to one of the routers you mention (you did not choose for e.g. your own?) and that you got at leeast that IP address. Next step is to see if you have a route to the Internet. Please the output of:
netstat -rn
And to go for the next step also:
host forums.opensuse.org
Your story about what Firefox does and what it doesn’t is not very clear. When you start Firefox and eneter an URL (which one?) in the address bar and send it off, what happens. You saying “… it cannot find the server” is your conclusion, not what you see happening. Which server is “the server”?