I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper). I have my external wifi USB dongle configured for use. IWCONFIG says that it is connected to the access point correcly. It can Ping to any ip address with success. But if I enter an URL in firefox, it says "can't find the server". Tried it with google.com, hardwareforums.com, and some other URLs. But with no success. Does anyone know what's going on here?
Sounds like a DNS problem. Do you have a working DNS server assigned? Try pinging Google. Can you? Also, Linux systems have a great tool called Dig. It's basically a more advanced version of nslookup. Try digging google.com: Code: dig google.com ...Do you get anything back, or does it time out? Which server is replying? Next, try querying a specific DNS server, like the "A" root server: Code: dig @4.2.2.2 www.google.com How about then?
