Re: Laptop Connects to WAP, But Cannot Access 'Net

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Claudio Fontana wrote:

> then I would not say it is a DNS issue at all.

   Let me summarize the Sony's behavior at 2 different wifi hot spots: wicd
sees nearby networks with the topmost the one at the site where the laptop
is. Clicking on the connect button shows it's connected. However, no web
page loads, and ping, traceroute, and host result in the cursor moving to a
new line and sitting there until ^c is pressed.

   From a console, I ran 'ifconfig -a' and saw that wlan0 was UP and RUNNING.
As root, running 'dhcpcd wlan0' returned an IP address on the LAN. Still
could not ping, run traceroute, or host. Nor would firefox return a Web page
when the URL was entered in the address box.

   The eth0 interface is configured for here and works flawlessly.

   While I've been running only linux since 1997 I'm not a professional
system or network admin; I'm a user. While I can fix more and more problems
that arise when I've encountered them before, this is a new one on me, and
I've been running linux on portables since the late 1990s (and Slackware
since -8.0 in 2003 when I dropped Red Hat).

   If it's not DNS, then what can I run to provide insight into the situation
and pass on the results to you folks?

Rich