Fedora Core 8 - Unable to open websites even though wirless connection is active

[j.gohel]

Hi,

I have just dual booted my HP Pavilion notebook with Fedora Core 8 and Windows XP.
I have configured my Wireless LAN and i can see the connection active at the top of the panel.
But when i try to open up any website, error page comes saying that the "website is taking too long to respond".

Please note that in the Firewall/Trusted Interfaces/wlan0 option is checked.

Also my Mozilla Firefox takes along time to start up.

Please help me resolve this.

Thanks,
Jignesh

[Beaker01]

What response do you get when pinging an external address (www.google.com usually works) from a terminal? Also, can you ping your router or modem?

Beaker01

[j.gohel]

Hi ,

I am getting reply when pinging websites from shell.Please tell me what do now?

Also my mozilla browser takes too long to open.

Thanks.

[johnnymack]

Hey Jignesh,

Are you pinging successfully using a URL or by using an IP address? Reason being, your DNS settings may be absent/wrong if pinging the former fails but the latter works OK.

I assume you are using DHCP. Sometimes, after you are "connected" if using DHCP, the local client DHCP service may fail to setup this file: /etc/resolv.conf. Check the contents of file: /etc/resolv.conf Are those setings correct? Should be a line in there with either "domain" or "search" on it with your proper domain name. This domain name will be yours if you are running DNS service, or else, it will be the domain of your provider. Also, there should be at least one line with "nameserver". That IP address better be a valid DNS nameserver IP.

If you can ping an external site using its IP address, then it probably means that your firewall isn't impeding HTTP traffic, at least. if it fails and you get packet loss, you may want to turn off your firewall entirely and try again. If no difference, at least you can clear the f/w from being the problem. Otherwise, your f/w has a rule blocking HTTP traffic.

Also, check your browser configuration for any proxy settings.. If turned on, make sure they are correct.

When you said "..i can see the connection active .." this simply means that your wireless adapter is working, your Linux driver is loaded correctly and you can communicate with the router/AP.. nothing more. The things I suggested checking are all on the "outside" of your local LAN.

Oh yes, does WinXP networking get you connected anywhere outside?

just a few things off the top of my head..

jm

[j.gohel]

Thanks, all the people out there for your help.I got the answer.Actually there were some configuration to be done in Mozilla Browser to disable IPv6.I found the answer from this thread.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176338.

Thanks once again.
Jignesh