wireless card allows only some internet to work

[rdg311]

I installed a dlink wua1430 wireless usb stick using ndiswrapper. It seems to be connected because it lets me use aim and fetch updates from adept. the problem is in the web browser I can only go to www.google.com for some reason. I cant search for anything or visit any other websites. I get page load errors every time that say it cannot connect to the host. i think i may have an issue in /etc/network/interfaces. here is what my interfaces file says at the very bottom.

auto waln0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid my-home-wireless-ID (i added this last line)

I think the line that i added is wrong. Should essid be replaced with the actually essid?

[Angus McNitt]

Re: wireless card allows only some internet to work

Have you tried to reach any websites by IP? Have you checked your DNS/resolv.conf settings? Can you search on google, or does it only display the main page? Just trying to narrow down the possible problems.

[inthedryer]

Re: wireless card allows only some internet to work

I am also having a similar problem, i installed kubuntu a couple days ago and have woked through a couple of frustrating issues thanks to the forums and documentation (no initial mp3 support, getting my broadcom wireless card to work, unfreezing adept manager after a partial java install, etc.), but this one has me stuck. It seems like its a fight at every turn to just make the os run smoothly and do the things i want it to do.

When i load konqueror i can go to most websites at a reasonable speed but after a try to make a google search everything goes excruciating slow, try 200 B/s. I havent been able to do any diagnostic tests on the network and system since i am so new to and linux/KDE and dont know how to. I heard something about IPV6 but im not sure if that is the root of the problem

This is the main issue that i need to fix, since having a decent connection to the internet will help me work out the rest of my systems kinks and help me become more linux literate.

Please help, the last thing I want to do is return to Windows over something like this.