Kwifi Shows Connection but...

[SniperWolf]

Ive got a really strange problem. Well, maybe its not strange, i dont know, im still extremely new to linux. Im trying to setup my wifi card, its a d-link Airplus G, and after i use netcardsetup,and enter my WEP stuff, KWifi shows i have a connection to my defult with an excellent connection. My problem is when i use any internet application (konquror, firefox,etc) it cant find any websites. Im using the 4.0.1 live DVD by the way, and there are no proxies i use. Please help me if you can, and walk me through with baby steps, as i just started using knoppix and linux this past week.

[majhen]

Go to the root shell and type "ifconfig" and "iwconfig" and paste result here. And shut down wep encryption and then try again. Maybe is something wrong with wep. Just for troubleshoting.

[killozap]

After you have input the wlan-stuf you need to configure the card as a normal network-card. There you can choose to use dhcp (easiest) or input the needed adresses. Your card needs to know where to find the nameserver.

[ywang77]

Hi There, I'm having the exactly problem described.I'm new to Linux as well.Kwifimanager sees the wifi card,DHCP is not working, I tried to config the IP address manually, as well as the DNS server, it seems that the system took the configuration, however no ip connectivity.

root@0[network]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"home123"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25D:093
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:52 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:3802 Missed beacon:0

wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"home123"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25D:093
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:52 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:3802 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

root@0[network]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 000:59:BC:0C:AD
inet addr:192.168.1.31 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:59ff:febc:cad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:39 errors:1342 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1342
TX packets:358 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9208 (8.9 KiB) TX bytes:18158 (17.7 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000


can you guys shed some lights on it?
Thanks.
Eric