Wireless connection established but"Network is unreachable."
Posted: Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:02
Wireless connection established but "Network is unreachable."
This is the first time I've tried to use wireless/wifi (I've used wired ethernet forever, never a problem.) Just got a new Acer Aspire One 722 netbook, would like to use wireless also.
All the puppies I've tried in this netbook have this same problem:
I install wireless using the Internet Connection Wizard following
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65346
I choose wlan0 Wireless ath9k pci: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
I finally get this: "NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF wlan0 SUCCESSFUL!"
I try to use this solid connection in my browser. Any url immediately gives this:
Opera: "Could not connect to remote server"
Seamonkey: "Failed to connect The connection was refused when attempting to connect to (for example)news.google.com Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection. "
In the terminal:
# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto Network is unreachable
#
Found an interesting article at
http://www.daltrey.org/b2evo1/blog1.php/aspire-one-722
Here's the paragraph:
"Later, Later: Never in life would I have figured out this work-around. (Thank you to the brave pioneers who beat me to the 722 and posted the fix!) Ethernet and wireless cards have a conflict that is solved by changing the bios boot order. Put the Atheros network boot first. Do this by getting into the bios by hitting <F2> at boot. (You had to change the boot order to get a CDROM or USB boot to install linux in the first place, didn't you?) Then before GRUB launches, computer will complain it can't find the network ROM for network boot or whatever, then GRUB starts and you are good to go."
Well I did that but still have the same problem.
EDIT: For me the tip in this article was a red herring. Changing the boot order was irrelevant so I put it back.
This is the first time I've tried to use wireless/wifi (I've used wired ethernet forever, never a problem.) Just got a new Acer Aspire One 722 netbook, would like to use wireless also.
All the puppies I've tried in this netbook have this same problem:
I install wireless using the Internet Connection Wizard following
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65346
I choose wlan0 Wireless ath9k pci: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
I finally get this: "NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF wlan0 SUCCESSFUL!"
I try to use this solid connection in my browser. Any url immediately gives this:
Opera: "Could not connect to remote server"
Seamonkey: "Failed to connect The connection was refused when attempting to connect to (for example)news.google.com Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection. "
In the terminal:
# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto Network is unreachable
#
Found an interesting article at
http://www.daltrey.org/b2evo1/blog1.php/aspire-one-722
Here's the paragraph:
"Later, Later: Never in life would I have figured out this work-around. (Thank you to the brave pioneers who beat me to the 722 and posted the fix!) Ethernet and wireless cards have a conflict that is solved by changing the bios boot order. Put the Atheros network boot first. Do this by getting into the bios by hitting <F2> at boot. (You had to change the boot order to get a CDROM or USB boot to install linux in the first place, didn't you?) Then before GRUB launches, computer will complain it can't find the network ROM for network boot or whatever, then GRUB starts and you are good to go."
Well I did that but still have the same problem.
EDIT: For me the tip in this article was a red herring. Changing the boot order was irrelevant so I put it back.