Bingo - Iam able to navigate to known ip addresses. resolv.conf only lists 127.0.0.1 so I need to learn more about navigatng around a linux machine. Thanks for your help. Now at least I know where to start looking On 2/25/08, Wayne Fiori <dev9null at gmail.com> wrote: > > Check /etc/resolv.conf. This sound like one of the name servers served > up by the DHCP server is functional and the rest aren't. Or manually > edit the file have you've been served an address such that > /etc/resolv.conf uses name servers that you know are valid. > > Have you tried pinging or connecting to servers using their IP address > and not hostname? > -- > =W > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Michael Conklin > <michael.conklin131 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I suspect the issue here is not related to my N800 but instead to the > > wireless network but I thought I'd see if anyone has any ideas. > > > > At work, I connect to a wifi network designed for guest use (i.e. it > does > > not connect to our corporate network). The wifi network has WEP security > and > > the N800 connects right away with the appropriate network key. As soon > as I > > enter the building - I get the message "Connected to XXXXX". Then, if I > > attempt to access the web, I separate login comes up where I have to > enter a > > username and password (why we have this additional layer of security is > a > > question to me since it means that the IT guys have to enable a separate > > account for each client that comes in the building and wants to access > > email). > > > > This web login always comes back with a "Successful Login" message and > > instructions on how to logout. > > > > The issue is that, when I then open a browser window and/or try to > access > > the internet one of 2 things happens: > > > > 1) about 90% of the time I get "Server not found" and I cannot access > the > > internet at all. This is true for any application and continues whether > I > > logout/log back in/reboot/reconnect etc. > > 2) about 10% of the time everything works fine, for about 2 hours, after > > which I am back at situation #1. > > > > I find it difficult to diagnose the situation and if anyone has any > ideas I > > would appreciate it. (My IT guys are of little help since the N800 is > not > > Windows, and this is an extremely low priority for them). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Michael Conklin > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-users mailing list > > maemo-users at maemo.org > > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20080225/3dca60fe/attachment.htm
