Firefox inconsistancy with wireless settings

[abhishek]

Hi everyone...
Need some help...

I have a toshiba L100 laptop, after windoes packed in, I decided to venture down the Linux route. After looking at many live-Cds i chose Linux Mint.

I am running the Linux Mint 4.0 Community Edition, as i felt it had most of the applications.

The linux installation was fine, it hung in the end, but after a reboot went well. The problem lies with the wireless interent. Linux is able to see and connect to the internet, I get good signal strength, (MintWifi) but firefox will not show me the page, and says that the internet is not connected.

Bar that I am loving linux, and have already started to put it on my other laptops.

Need some help on this one please...!

[Husse]

You did not say which community edition
I think you are not getting name resolution - that is if you really get on the net - i.e. you are able to ping or so (ping http://www.google.com in a terminal)
Possible solution
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... e_programs

[abhishek]

Thank you for your response,

I am able to ping google.com. I have Beta 044 running. I really do like it bar this one teething problem. Its is fantastic.

Its just really weird! I had a look at the article link you found for me, am not sure if it applies to me if a i am able to ping. As far as i understand, i am on the interent, just cant see it!

[Husse]

Well, we can't know everything can we - I certainly can't
You can ping - this means that ping works and if you use an some http://www.**** and not an IP ping has name resolution. Name resolution is the process that translates things like http://www.linuxmint.com to an IP (85.25.140.89) and so makes it possible to use the net
The settings in your computer probably points to your modem/router as a DNS server (name server)
Your modem/router transfers the name resolution it finds on the internet to your computer.
For reasons I don't understand sometimes some applications can't use that and if you point your network to the name servers on the net these applications get name resolution
I have this problem in some of my installed Mint but not in some....

[abhishek]

I now understand the technical side of it.... it sounds baffeling to be honest...
So that is the best way to resolve this matter?

[Husse]

If it works it's the only way available (to set DNS IP etc as in the wiki)
This is a complex interaction between soft- and hardware in several ways and to find a better way is probably going to take longer than the system lasts (or it's a piece of cake and I'm a cakehead)