Wireless network fails to take me beyond my router

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 23:05:33 -0400
Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:

> 
> see if you can ping an external IP number like 64.233.161.104 (google)
> 
> if ping fails, it's a routing thing, your default gateway on your
> laptop should  point to the IP of the router.  netmask shouldbe
> 255.255.255.0.
> 
> if you can ping it, you might have a problem with your DNS, and
> therefore cannot resolve names like "yahoo.com."  your DNS server
> should point to the router's IP, whose cache should be set to external
> servers when it connects to your provider's IP.
> 
> -rei
> 
> 

Many thanks. That did it. Odd that I haven't had to add the router's
IP address manually on my other Ubuntu 9.04 machine on the same
router. But there we are..

Thanks again!

Pete

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