Bought a new laptop and installed Dapper, it recognized the builtin wireless and it is enabled, kwifi recognizes it, but I cannot access the internet, what am I doing wrong?? please help, thanks
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Re: Cannot access the internet
Hello irichard,
open a terminal
Type in sudo iwconfig hit enter
post results in reply
Also:
do you know the make / model of your wifi chipset?
This info will assist the folks in the forum..........
Will
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Re: Cannot access the internet (solved)
I found out that there was no route (gateway) to the internet in networking, so I modified /etc/network/interfaces with the following:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.1.7 (changed this number on each computer)
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid KR1
Bingo, it works using the D-Link KR1 router
the only problem I am having is I have to reinstall rt73.ko each time I boot, cannot figure out where to put it so it will be automatically on boot. Using sudo inmod rt73.ko
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