No wireless in Ubuntu :(

Christopher Lemire christopher.lemire at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 15:20:27 UTC 2009


>The problem you have is worse than the title. I can't figure
>out what your problem is. Please send a lot more about your
>network.

That's what happened ever since I became a more experienced Linux
user. I ask questions that are more difficult. Here's some output. Now
I am in Windows again, so here it shows I can resolve dns.

C:\>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [74.125.67.100] with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 74.125.67.100: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=47
Reply from 74.125.67.100: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=47
Reply from 74.125.67.100: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=47
Reply from 74.125.67.100: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 74.125.67.100:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 47ms, Maximum = 59ms, Average = 53ms

C:\>

Here is Linux output.

chris at ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:c0:26:7d:4c:df
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          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:21 Base address:0xce00

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:532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:37240 (37.2 KB)  TX bytes:37240 (37.2 KB)

wlan2     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:f7:d8:f6:aa
          inet addr:192.168.1.225  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::201:f7ff:fed8:f6aa/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:69 errors:5 dropped:132 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:10409 (10.4 KB)  TX bytes:7300 (7.3 KB)

chris at ubuntu:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0 wlan2
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth1
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan2
chris at ubuntu:~$ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.045/0.058/0.010 ms
chris at ubuntu:~$ ping google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
chris at ubuntu:~$

The routing table shows 0.0.0.0 as my gateway. That sounds like it
could be the problem.

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Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
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