Re: Cannot access external pages

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/14/04


Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:59:05 +0100

In comp.os.linux.networking Will Hayworth <will@willhayworth.com>:
> I can't access pages outside my network from my SuSE 9.1 laptop; and I
> can access my router configuration pages. I've tried stopping the
> firewall, to no avail; I've tried using raw IP addresses to access
> external pages (to avoid engaging DNS), too. How can I fix this?

> It turns out that I can access a webpage from my server, however, so
> the internal access is fine. However, external access is still
> unavailable. Also, when I use an Ethernet cable, access to external
> pages works fine. The main problem is external access using my
> Centrino wireless card. The card is initialized and works fine for
> internal access.

Sounds as if you are simply missing the proper default gateway,
if your wireless NIC is up. If you can't get it going, show us
the output of:

 netstat -rn

[..]

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