Can't surf the Net

[hairymark2]

Many thanks to all who helped me install Ubuntu over the last few days. I have it running on my desktop PC.

It detected my wireless network card & I have connected to my wireless network. I can't surf the though??

The little icon at the top right of the screen says I'm connected to my wireless network but no web pages will load in firefox

Help!

[D-cat]

Are you connected to your own wireless access point? If you're connected to someone els'es, they may have security measures preventing outsiders from accessing their Internet.

OTOH, your own router might also have settings (e.g. MAC filter) that would allow the physical connection but not allow a route to the outside Internet.

There's also the possibility that your laptop, even having connected, never received the DHCP from your router.

Open a terminal window and type ifconfig to view the current network status and iwconfig to view the wireless extensions status. You can post the output for us we might be able to help debug.

[hairymark2]

I did as you said & am posting the output below. Hope you can help me.

Thanks

BTW am definately connected to my own wireless router which is working fine with other PCs in the house. Even the one in question if I boot up XP

mark@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ed:39:18:ed
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xdc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17541 (17.5 KB) TX bytes:17541 (17.5 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:2e:e4:5c:84
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:2eff:fee4:5c84/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:122 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4365 (4.3 KB) TX bytes:15342 (15.3 KB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0E-2E-E4-5C-84-63-38-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

mark@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"SKY55536"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:18:4D:43:1C:AA
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=66/100 Signal level:-38 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

mark@ubuntu:~$

[D-cat]

Okay, looks kosher. What's the output of route and cat /etc/resolv.conf?

[hairymark2]

Okay, looks kosher. What's the output of route and cat /etc/resolv.conf?

Thanks for the reply. Output I got is below:

mark@ubuntu:~$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 wlan0
cat /etc/resolv.conf
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
mark@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.0.1
mark@ubuntu:~$

[D-cat]

Everything looks good except I see a lack of a default route (don't know why that is, since it should be set by DHCP along with everything else). See if you execute this:

sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1 wlan0

if your browsers work after.