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virati

Member

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 83

Wireless Network Ping

It took over a month but I'm making progress in connecting to our apartment's wireless network on Linux. I'm using a Ralink Rt61 card and trying to connect to a D-link wireless router.

iwconfig gives me -> wlan0 ESSID ....... Access Point: ##MACADDRESS##

which hasn't happened with the 5 other routers we've tried.
I've put in the encyption key, the link quality is about 70/100, Bit Rate=12 Mb/s, etc etc.

i run dhcpcd wlan0 and it doesn't throw me an error (for wlan0, that's a first).

The problem comes when i try to ping google through it with: ping -I wlan0 -c 3 www.google.com

it complains with "From 192.168.0.196 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable" and it does that three times, each one taking about 3-4 seconds to show up. I feel like I'm really close. I am also on a wired connection (eth1) if that affects anything. Thanks for any suggestions.

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: Wireless Network Ping

Sounds like you don't have a DNS server. Post your /etc/resolv.conf.

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virati

Member

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 83

Re: Wireless Network Ping

> cat /etc/resolv.conf
#Generated by dhcpcd for interface wlan0
search CPE1.mdu
nameserver 192.168.0.1

hmm, what exactly is that telling me? I havn't had a problem connecting to the internet through this router/network in my Vista dual-boot, just to clarify. I'm not too knowledgeable with this DNS stuff: wouldn't the router handle the details of that? Or, at least, the OS automatically? Like it is automatically handling it for my eth1 connection?