Hello,
Most probably the DNS is not being assigned properly. Try
configuring your wi-fi card using DHCP.
On 01 Mar 2005 14:17:13 Z, Joe Bosak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using a laptop, sometimes with a normal ethernet card (to connect to my
> network) and sometimes using a wireless card, to connect when I am on the
> train for example (one of our train lines has wifi on the train, which is
> supposed to operate for free where I am using it).
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> When I go wireless, I put in the wireless card, and the normal ethernet
> card is not there. The wireless card picks up the train's network - it gets
> the essid correct. At first it was retaining the ethernet card address, but
> I got rid of that (I forget how...). It appears to work OK and I get
> "connect" and "disconnect" messages.
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> My problem is that I don't seem to be able to actually connect to the web.
> Lynx cannot find any web addresses for example, ping never finds anything
> either. This includes the "landing page" that the train service says we
> should start at. I tried route and that gives a blank table. I tried using:
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> route add -net 224.0.0.0 -netmask 224.0.0.0 dev eth0
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> but all I get is an error message.
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> Any ideas?
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