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Wifi detected, connected and nothing comes up!

Postby ppernot on Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:21 pm

Hello all,

I have been running Linux Mint for a while, my first version being "Linux Mint 7 - Gloria" I had a few bugs here and there but most of them got solved quite easily, Lately I downloaded Lisa and am running from a usb key (my wife is used to her MS and as she bought the computer she wants it as it is). how ever my friend witch bought my older computer ( set up with Mint 11 - Katya) loves the new feel and looks of Mint 12 - Lisa. I showed it to him but cant seem to get any wifi working. on the 11 version everything works good but on the 12 it detects the network connects to it but when I open a web page or try to connect with any of the software that needs a internet connection it tells me that there is no connection.still the network manager tells me everything is working ok. This computer is an Acer- Aspire-7736-6963 the network controler is a Intel corporation Wifi Link 5100 and everything works good on Katya. when I open firefox it sels me that server can not be found how ever it is for any one else arround.

I hope to hear from you guys soon.

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Re: Wifi detected, connected and nothing comes up!

Postby hellfire695 on Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:37 pm

try running

sudo dhcpcd wlan0
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Re: Wifi detected, connected and nothing comes up!

Postby remoulder on Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:01 pm

ppernot wrote:detects the network connects to

Once this is done, copy/paste here the output in a terminal of
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nm-tool
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Re: Wifi detected, connected and nothing comes up!

Postby ppernot on Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:41 pm

the copy paste was not much of an option as all we have is wireless and the problem is in the other version. so here it comes by hand.

Networkmanager tool

State: Connected (Global)

-Device: eth1---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type: wired
Driver: unavailable
Default: no
HW Address: 00:26:2D:6B:3B:75

Capabilities
Carrier detected: yes

-Device: wlan1 (auto camp_g)
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: lwlang
State: connected
default:yes
HW Address:00:26:C6:26:84:1C

Capabilities:
Speed: 2 Mb/s

Wireless properties
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption:yes

Wireless access point (* = current AP)
camp_g infra,E8:B7:48:AA:EB:90, Freq 2462 MHz, rate 54Mb/s stre
ngth 42
camp_g infra,40:55:39:EE:AB:6C, Freq 2462 MHz, rate 54Mb/s stre
ngth 25
camp_g infra,40:55:39:EE:AB:50, Freq 2412 MHz, rate 54Mb/s stre
ngth 25
camp_g infra,E8:B7:48:AA:EF:90, Freq 2412 MHz, rate 54Mb/s stre
ngth 25
camp_g infra,00:21:A0:27:3F:20, Freq 2462 MHz, rate 54Mb/s stre
ngth 29
camp_g infra,00:07:7D:4D:1D:16, Freq 2462 MHz, rate 54Mb/s stre
ngth 29

IPv4 settings:
Address:192.170.0.42
Prefix: 23 (255.255.254.0)
Gateway:192.170.0.1

DNS: 8.8.8.8
DNS: 8.8.4.4


Hope that helps you as nothing append with: sudo dhcpcd wlan0

thanks in advance

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Re: Wifi detected, connected and nothing comes up!

Postby remoulder on Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:48 am

ppernot wrote:copy paste was not much of an option

You could have pasted into a text file and copied that, easier than typing it all out!

ppernot wrote:Address:192.170.0.42
Prefix: 23 (255.255.254.0)
Gateway:192.170.0.1

DNS: 8.8.8.8
DNS: 8.8.4.4

This seems to be a public wifi network, is that correct? Also any reason you are using the Google dns servers or is that also provided by your provider?

ppernot wrote:Speed: 2 Mb/s

This may the reason you are having issues, it may just be too slow to connect properly. Have you tried connecting to one of the other available networks if you can?

However it could be the driver in use so if this doesn't work, please provide the outputs of
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lshw -c network
lsmod
[Edit] your original post and add [SOLVED] once your question is resolved.

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