Help with new wifi setup please

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I am trying to connect to a newly fitted wifi router and am having some problems. Although the connection appears to be working judging by the script running past, I cannot get any internet access.
It is possible the router has not been set up correctly but it works on my wife’s windoze machine. I have turned off firewall but am stuck for ideas as to why there is no internet access. Can somebody please help.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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what troublehshooting have you done so far?

what are you using to connect the the router (network-manager, ceni, wifi, ???)

and please post the model of the router and the contents of this terminal output

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inxi -F
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[Member Budgie]

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Sorry for delay and many thanks for the reply. Not been able to do much so far and will have to save work from new wifi and send to the one which is working so am working on it.

I am using ceni to make a wifi connection and the new device is a TP-Link model TD-W9970 300 Mbps Wireless N, USB VDSL/ADSL Modem Router. However the device is not used for VDSL as we do not have a VDSL connection. We receive our wifi signal from a dish across the valley. (We are too far from cabinet for fibre connection) Upstream of remote dish there is another dish link and then a connection to high capacity fibre. AFAIK the dish on our house is simply an aeriel with a cat 5 connection which is plugged into one of the RJ45 sockets and at present I cannot access the web interface.

I can give you the code for terminal output as connected to my working broadband connection but will send the same from new connection later. BTW I cannot get [code] brackets to work yet,

alastair@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17_386-base Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: IBM product: 2373Q91 v: ThinkPad T42 serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: IBM model: 2373Q91 serial: <root required> BIOS: IBM v: 1RETDRWW (3.23 ) 
  date: 06/18/2007 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.5 Wh condition: 48.6/47.5 Wh (102%) 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  Speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 600/1800 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1200 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RV200/M7 [Mobility Radeon 7500] driver: radeon v: kernel 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2 v: 1.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:11:25:86:fe:5f 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC driver: ath5k 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:05:4e:4f:3c:7a 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 18.31 GiB (16.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1234GAX size: 111.79 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 9.78 GiB used: 4.42 GiB (45.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
  ID-2: /home size: 26.78 GiB used: 13.90 GiB (51.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 392 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 45.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2974 
Info:
  Processes: 135 Uptime: 37m Memory: 1002.4 MiB used: 572.1 MiB (57.1%) Shell: bash 
  inxi: 3.0.25 
alastair@antix1:~

Will get more info as soon as possible but I am wondering if there is some proxy set up in windoze but not by default in linux. Just a thought as neither linus machine will connect to this new device but windoze does work,

[Member Budgie]

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Hi and further to the above I tried connecting another laptop running openSuSE Leap 15.0 to the same wifi ap.
I had the same problem; no internet connection but this time I tried updating my /etc/resolv.conf file and this seemed to solve the problem on the opensuse machine as I was then able to browse to websites.

Unfortunately this approach
sudo netconfig update -f
failed on my antix machine.

Where should I look next?

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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[Moderator caprea]

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Since you are using ceni it maybe helps to look into your /etc/network/interfaces
Maybe post the content
antix has the resolveconf program installed.
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#The_resolv.conf_configuration_file
I hope someone with more knowledge and experience than me about network-configuration will look at this.

[Moderator BobC]

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My suggestion is to make sure that the laptop wifi works first on a known good wifi setup if you are not already sure of that.

My 2nd suggestion is to see if you can find some other device that does work on this Wi-Fi and look at how it is setup to get clues

[Member Budgie]

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This antix machine works on another wifi ap and I can access web pagesfrom it but cannot get problem wifi ap to work with this machine.
Using another linux machine I can access web pages from “problem” wifi ap.

Looks like I must dig into wireshark and kismet but well out of my depth here.
Any obvious suggestions I have not mentioned would be much appreciated.

[Anonymous]

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When you start Ceni and let it scan for networks, does it show your „Problem“ NW at all?

Probably the easiest way would be to simply download wicd .deb from repository (on another computer) and install manual way on your machine.

If you use Ceni, upon start you should have a list of interfaces.
You choose your interface and you let Ceni scan the network.
It should show you the list of all networks.
You choose one and continue.
It shows you properties screen where you choose ‘paste’.
In the next step, you simply copy & paste your PW and continue.
(It’ll not show the pasted text!)

If all that doesn’t help, here some useful reading:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-linux-wpa-wpa2-wireless-wifi-networking/
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-connect-to-a-wpa-wifi-using-command-lines-on-debian
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/283722/how-to-connect-to-wifi-from-command-line
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/strange-network-manager-problem-in-debian-stretch-4175580711/

P.S. Would you please describe your solution, if you find one, so it stays here for future reference?

[Moderator BobC]

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Ok, if you were to go to a command cmd window on the windows machine that Wi-Fi works on and type ipconfig /all and paste the text into a text file, and post it, we could see how the windows machine connects.

Maybe from that, someone can see what needs to change in the linux setup. Based on the post above I’m guessing your DNS servers might not be working, maybe not specified correctly.

To test this theory go to the browser on the machine and in the address window paste in:

http://68.171.128.14/

This is the address for gata.org, and the purpose of doing this is just to see if it is able to come up by address rather than by name. If the site comes up, it means your Wi-Fi is working but the DNS name resolution is not working.

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