PLEASE help me (pleading) Wireless connection problems

Nathan Bahn nathan.bahn at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 19:58:48 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I truly thought that when I discovered that after the dhclient package was
> installed that everything was OK. However, I get some wierd symptoms when I
> try to connect to the net from my laptop...
>
> Here is what is happening as long as I am within my on local network
> everything seems to be working. When I attempt to get to the internet (start
> Firefox I loose connectivity. Up until that time I can ping sites like
> yahoo.com just fine! My wired network still works!
>
> The above ONLY happens on my NEW system, the old one works fine! I have run
> diff on /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, /etc/dhcp3/dchpd.conf and
> /etc/network/interfaces. ALL three contain exactly what I would expect to be
> there. They are not exact copies with the exception of dhclient because of a
> change in Ethernet IDs (eth1 became eth3 and eth2 became eth4).
>
> It appears to have something to do with routing since ifconfig and iwconfig
> output changes after the connection is lost.
>
> Can anyone point me in the proper direction as to where I might look? I
> have tried everything I can think of for several days and just can't seem to
> get it right!
>
> THANKS
> Jay
> --
>
>
> Jay Ridgley
> jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
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J.R.--
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