I don't know if the Netgear serves a DNS server in the DHCP lease, but this is generally what your problem is from. Also, make sure your DNS servers actually show up in /etc/resolv.conf. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wisse [mailto:wiswp@niue.nu] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:09 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Any wireless experts out there? Hi All I didn't get any response on my email that I couldn't make a wireless connection. Now I have the connection all running again, I can go to a website if I know the IP address, I also can get my email ( I put in a specific IP address) supplied by my ISP . But I can't go on to the Web. It seems the DNS is not working . Has anybody an idea what to look for and/or what to change? I'm using a Netgear MA311 802/b card on SuSE 9.0 Thanks for your help. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors." -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Thank you Khanh for answering my email On Saturday 15 May 2004 14:31, Khanh Tran wrote:
I don't know if the Netgear serves a DNS server in the DHCP lease, but this is generally what your problem is from
I'm not to sure what you mean by this, can you explain a little bit more?
Also, make sure your DNS servers actually show up in /etc/resolv.conf.
I looked in this file and the only thing what's there is: search local I'm banging my head against the wall , it is probably just a little thing what I forget but I just cannot get it to work again because it all worked until last Tuesday when it gave up on me. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
On Saturday 15 May 2004 09:56 pm, Bill Wisse wrote:
Thank you Khanh for answering my email
On Saturday 15 May 2004 14:31, Khanh Tran wrote:
I don't know if the Netgear serves a DNS server in the DHCP lease, but this is generally what your problem is from
I'm not to sure what you mean by this, can you explain a little bit more?
Somewhere, somehow, you have to pick up an address for a DNS server and get it into /etc/resolv.conf. I've always manually put in such an address but a dial-up connection should also pick one up. Question is: where does that happen in a wireless connect and that should be a function of your wireless connection box I would think. But /etc/resolv.conf is the place to look to see what's happening with DNS on your machine and if there's no ip address for a DNS server in there, then you have no DNS server working for you.
Also, make sure your DNS servers actually show up in /etc/resolv.conf.
I looked in this file and the only thing what's there is:
search local
I'm banging my head against the wall , it is probably just a little thing what I forget but I just cannot get it to work again because it all worked until last Tuesday when it gave up on me.
-- Greetings from
/bill at 169 west , 19 south.
Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
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