Linux and connecting to the web

[Killer Queen]

After a sucessful two years with Linux i have become stumped this morning when logging on I have not been able to connect to the interenet from my Fedora 12 system.

I have had a route around to look at settings and cannot see anyuthing amiss.

Now fellow goaters have you had any similar experience if so what did you do to resolve it.

As my machine is dual booted I have logged in under my windows environment to see if that works and it does.

If no one has experienced this any ideas? I have even resulted to the destructions.

Thanks in advance

 

[monobrow]

Wired or wireless? Has it a set IP to your router or a dynamic one?

Open a terminal window and type in ifconfig and see what is spewed out. it should have if0 as your ethernet followed by all the config stuff on how to get to your router and default gateway..

Also try to ping the address of your router if you know it's address. That'll tell you if it can see the router at least!

ping 192.168.0.1

Please excuse any duff gen as I've not been using linux for quite some time...

 

[Killer Queen]

Thanks Mono

Firstly I am using a wireless network

Having followed the above for the first issue am getting

Link encap: Local Loopback

inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
inet addr: : 1/128 Scope: host
Up LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 METRIC: 1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions: 0 txquelon: 0
RX bytes: 480 (480.0 b) Tx bytes: 480 (480.0b)

This follows gidance also given in the book

When I try to ping i get network unreachable.

Any ideas?

Thanks again

 

[monobrow]

Sounds like a right basic question but is the wireless switched on? If you only got the loopback returned, it's like the wireless isn't there...

The command to put up / take down a network adapter is

ifconfig [interface] up
ifconfig [interface] down

[interface] being eth0 eth1 wlan0 ath0 etc...

Try iwlist or iwconfig, they are more suited to wireless info.

 

[Killer Queen]

Sounds like a right basic question but is the wireless switched on? If you only got the loopback returned, it's like the wireless isn't there...

The command to put up / take down a network adapter is

ifconfig [interface] up
ifconfig [interface] down

[interface] being eth0 eth1 wlan0 ath0 etc...

Try iwlist or iwconfig, they are more suited to wireless info.

I have run the above and results below. I am guessing that it is possible for the wireless network to be turned on in windows and not in Linux am stumped as it would have turned its self off.

Any further ideas would be greatfully received.

ifconfig [wlan0] up error fetching interface info device not found

iwlist [interface] scanning [essidNNN] [last]
frequency
channel
bitrate
rate
encryption
keys
power
tx power
retry
ap
accesspoints
peers
event
auth
wpakeys
genie
modulation

when I tried

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
wmaster0 no wireless extensions

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:""
Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.412 GHz Access point: not -Associated
TX-Power =0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr: off Power Management: off
Link Quality: 0 SIgnal Level: 0 Noise Level: 0
RX invalid nwid:0 RX invalid crypt:0 RX invalid frag:0
TX excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 missed beacon:0

Network connectiosn show the connection I have been using up till saturday.

Nothng is shown in the network device control

Network configuration shows wlan0 as inactive & the button to activate is greyed out.

 

[CodeMonkey]

Guess who's back, back again. yes he's back tell a friend.

Guess who's back, back again. yes he's back tell a friend.

Problem solved,

I've talked her through it. Her desktop panel got corrupted and she was missing the notification area which houses the NetworkManager icon, once she had re-added it and clicked on enabled networking it was roberts your mothers brother.

 

[Killer Queen]

Thanks guys