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    Strange network issue (both Ubuntu and openSUSE)

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Althernai, May 25, 2009.

  1. Althernai

    Althernai Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yesterday, I installed openSUSE 11.1 on my Compal JFL92 and thus far this has not gone well. There are issues with the sound card (can't Skype) and various other things, but the most annoying one (because it limits my ability to deal with everything else) is the wireless networking.

    The laptop has an Intel 4965 AGN wireless card which openSUSE interfaces with using the iwlagn drivers and NetworkManager 0.70. I am trying to connect to a wireless network that uses WEP encryption and a shared key. Everything appears to go perfectly fine -- the network is found, the key is accepted, I have an IP and NetworkManager claims that the signal is at full strength. However, when I try to actually browse the web, no site ever loads. Likewise,

    ping google.com

    simply hangs forever.

    It gets even weirder: once every 3 reboots or so, this doesn't happen -- the network works just fine. I've looked at /var/log/NetworkManager and dmesg and there is no difference between the times it doesn't. Also, there are no errors of any kind.

    After trying to fix this for the better part of two days, I gave up on it and tried Ubuntu 9.04... but it has the same exact problem (presumably because it also uses iwlagn and NetworkManager). Does anyone know what is wrong and how to fix it?
     
    Althernai, May 25, 2009
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    Never mind, I figured it out: it was assigning me completely bogus DNS and IP numbers. I can fix it by manual assignment, but it is still bizarre.
     
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