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

John Crowhurst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
route tells you what gateway IP address you have. Its pointless pinging 
10.5.70.1 if the gateway IP is 10.5.70.254

You need to use route -n to find the gateway IP address.

The -n is the important switch. It turns off DNS for that command, so 
traceroute -n 8.8.8.8 will show you the route to Google's DNS server by 
every IP address. You know there is a problem with your DNS, so 
attempting DNS lookups will fail.

You might want to look at trying a manual wireless connection with 
iwconfig and wpa_supplicant to see if those methods work.

Follow the tutorial at this link: http://linux.icydog.net/wpa.php

If that works, then you know you can connect to the wifi network and the 
problem is in your wicd-client config somewhere.

Best,

John
On 31/03/2012 22:08, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>
>> Can you ping the gateway?
>> ping 10.5.70.1
>
> Claudio,
>
>   No.
>
>> Can you show your routing tables at this point?
>> /sbin/route -n
>
>   Didn't try route, just traceroute and that failed ('network not
> reachable').
>
>   This is why it's so puzzling.
>
> Rich
>
>
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