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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

[SOLVED]wlan0 connects to wireless network, but internet does not work

I have a Compaq Presario A900 laptop just installed Arch on it, went through the wireless Wiki and also checked this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65467 (similar issue but I don't use any proxy). It has Broadcom card, 4311 Rev 02. I tried both the b43-firmware and broadcom-wl AUR packages and b43 works with my card.

I have tried with the shell to connect but "iwlist wlan0 scan" always returns no results. (Yes, I did try ifconfig eth0 down first as well before bringing wlan0 up). So I have tried wicd and it worked to connect me to my wireless network which uses WPA, and signal shows ~80% strength, however ping google.ca, nothing works as far as connected to the net.

Any output I should show I will if I have forgotten, thanks very much for your help!

Last edited by colbert (2009-05-27 00:40:48)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [SOLVED]wlan0 connects to wireless network, but internet does not work

discovering no networks with iwlist may point to issues with your driver, no idea about that particular one though...
when you are connected through wicd,
how/ or do you get an IP? (ifconfig wlan0)
if you can ping 74.125.39.106 , you got a DNS problem.

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: [SOLVED]wlan0 connects to wireless network, but internet does not work

Thanks for your help hokasch, however it was a result of needing to reboot and have proper daemon in rc.conf, and it has been working great last few days Thanks!