No wireless in Ubuntu :(

[Christopher Lemire]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Christopher Lemire
> <christopher.lemire at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have a strange issue. I can connect to wireless networks from Linux
>> (Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit using rtl8187 chipset), but I can't see outside of
>> the LAN. I can ping the gateway and each computer while in windows. I
>> get the same dns, dhcp obtained info and can connect although the
>> Linux driver works better when it was working because with the windows
>> one, the internet often cuts out.
>
> Connect to your AP
>
> Post the output of of an ifconfig and your routing table ("netstat -r"
> perhaps, I'm on AIX at the moment so I can't check the linux command,
> it the equivalent of the Windows "route print" command).
>
> You say you can ping the gateway whilst in Windows - can we assume
> that you can do the same in Linux?
>
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C:\>ping 192.168.1.1

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 3ms

C:\>

That's windows. Now I will reboot to Linux and do "route -n" and the
others. Yes, I can ping the gateway in Linux as well as other
computers on the network.

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