Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:20:31 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connected to Router but not Internet Message-ID: <1123114831.8837.1.camel@tirun> In-Reply-To: <200508040012.j740C3XW006205@ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com> References: <200508040012.j740C3XW006205@ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com>
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On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 20:12 -0400, Jonathan Herriott wrote: > kldload -v if_ipw > > ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /usr/local/libdata/if_ipw/ipw2100-1.3.fw > > ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid JONNET wepkey my_key > weptxkey 1 wepmode on > > I can ping and access my router, but when I go to ping google, it says the > host name cannot be resolved or some such thing. Basically, it's not able > to get the address with the host name. Any idea what I did wrong? You haven't told FreeBSD how to use the router. route add default ip.addr.of.router Also, you might want to verify that /etc/resolv.conf has a nameserver listed so the resolver knows how to translate e.g. www.google.com to an IP address. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH
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