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tobben

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 2

"Unknown host www.google.com", wireless configuring ... [SOLVED]

Hi everyone I'm new here. I'm trying to setup Arch on my old asus a6000 laptop, working my way through the Beginner's guide. Everything looked great until

Lastly, ensure you can route using /bin/ping:  ping -c 3 www.google.com

It just gives unknown host... Pinging 8.8.8.8 gives "Destination Host Unreachable".  On the bright side, both

iwlist eth1 scan

and

ping 192.168.1.1

shows I'm at least connected to the router.

lspci -v

Shows

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
    Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
    Kernel modules: ipw2200

Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
    Kernel driver in use: 8139too
    Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp

Trying

dmesg | grep 8139too

gives lots of output, but eventually:

8139too 0000:00:0b.0: eth0: link down

Why doees 8139too refer to eth0 when iwconfig says:

eth0    no wireless extensions.

According to iwconfig eth1 is my wireless interface...

Typing:

dmesg | grep ipw2200

Also gives alot of output, mosty these two lines over and over:

Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.
Firmware error detected. Restarting.

The first line probably comes from doing

wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

twice...

Any help is appreciated!

Last edited by tobben (2012-03-01 11:15:04)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: "Unknown host www.google.com", wireless configuring ... [SOLVED]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012

tobben

Member

Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 2

Re: "Unknown host www.google.com", wireless configuring ... [SOLVED]

Thanks, Gusar.

It seems like I first had chosen the wrong interface when using the installers "setup network".

I tried "setup network" again, and now it works just fine.