I have Linux on my laptop and get internet through a wireless router at my house but I have issues loading pages as in they just don't load. Anyone else with linux have this problem?
Linux and wireless
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I have linux on a netbook. I decided it would be a better idea to ditch the windows 7 and put it on there.
What a mistake. If only my restore DVDs worked....
Although..as dual boot and with a reliable connection (not PPPOE) it was fun to play with.
If only I'd kept it dual boot...
if only...
What a mistake. If only my restore DVDs worked....
Although..as dual boot and with a reliable connection (not PPPOE) it was fun to play with.
If only I'd kept it dual boot...
if only...
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If I have it hooked to a hardline it does fine but it doesn't seem to mesh well with wireless and god forbid I try to get wi-fi somewhere... 
Oh well looks like I'll just have to try and get WIndows 7 real soon.
Oh well looks like I'll just have to try and get WIndows 7 real soon.
For Linux wireless support see
http://linuxwireless.org/
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers.
My Thinkpads (T42p, T61p) simply worked (with SuSE) right out of the box.
http://linuxwireless.org/
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers.
My Thinkpads (T42p, T61p) simply worked (with SuSE) right out of the box.
I had good luck replacing the default network manager with WICD it's a bit more complicated but was much more reliable for me with wireless.
on ubuntu and derivatives "supo apt-get install wicd"
The thing you need to remember with WICD is that you must manually set the wifi password for the connection, it won't pop up a prompt.
on ubuntu and derivatives "supo apt-get install wicd"
The thing you need to remember with WICD is that you must manually set the wifi password for the connection, it won't pop up a prompt.
WiFi support under Linux has improved greatly, but can still be a bit flaky as wifi cards change their chipsets and also don't want to release proprietary info. However, wifi "just works" with my Xandros netbook. I've given up setting it up under Fedora, however, but that's my fault for not updating my system for some (long) time.
There's also some useful info in the "linux mint" thread... tho you will have to slog through a good bit of silliness as well.
There's also some useful info in the "linux mint" thread... tho you will have to slog through a good bit of silliness as well.
My suggestion is to try another Linux distribution entirely and see what you get; as Rich says, wireless can be wonky on very new hardware, as the Linux community may not have had a chance to build appropriate drivers for it yet.
FTFY.
+1
Just a dumb question, but other folks with wireless cards can get internet access through your wireless router, yes? And what kind of security are you running on that router?
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Its a password protected router so its just mine and one other laptop on the network and the other laptop is very very seldom used.
Can you connect to the router, even if you receive no pages? That is, does the router acknowledge your password and give you an IP address? (if you don't know what I'm talking about, open a terminal and type
and press return. If the information that comes back shows that you have an IP address for some ethernet device (probably called eth0) that is not "169.something.something.something", then tell me what the IP is -- it should be 192.168.something.something or 10.0.something.something.
Code:
sudo ifconfigThat can help us see what's going on. Also try this:
Code:
robert@avalon:~> /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Code:
robert@avalon:~> ping -c 2 [B][U]192.168.0.1[/U][/B]
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.157 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.234 ms
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.157/0.195/0.234/0.040 msShow us whatever output you get from the ifconfig and the above two commands.
soapbox:
heh...you said "Press return."
heh...you said "Press return."
I take nothing for granted (no offense Travis!). Many years of tech support have led me to ask "is it plugged in? Is the monitor turned on?" when people say "my computer is dead!"
// Unless all the cool kids are calling that key "Enter" these days...off my lawn, etc.
What distribution?
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uuhh yeah I'm ok with hardware but as far as code and programing goes thats clear as mud to me. But I did some number crunching and I should be getting Windows 7 within the next week so I'll be on a little more familiar ground then.
