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Hardware - Support => Network => Topic started by: cypher000 on December 19, 2014, 12:34:17 PM
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Hi Guy's. I am absolutely devastated by the latest turn of events. I have been happily using LL2 until today something happened that just cannot happen. Or can it? NO INTERNET CONNECTION. There it was a blatant as you like. I could use LL2 but not Firefox.
I restarted and switched over to Win XP. Ugh! I hate to have to do that. But on Win XP I did have an internet connection. Otherwise I would not have been able to contact you lads. Phew!
I desperately need to get back online in LL2, but what to do and how to do it?I have TPLink on USB. My WiFi Ethernet is ZyXEL. What can I do Guy's to get my LL2 up and running on the net again? Can anyone spare me a few moments of their valuable time? I hope I have explained this problem ok? Regards. Walt.
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I think that the configurations got lost somehow on either the modem , the router ,
I had a new carrier , modem , router hell over the last 4-5 days .
Someone in the forum will give you a hand mate .
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Is this wireless or land Line?
Do you see eth0, wlan0 in LL2
Mine for Example
(http://thumbnails111.imagebam.com/37400/80b09c373996118.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/80b09c373996118)
be cool. Make some tea. Relax. It is probably no big deal. You might have had the cat walk across the keyboard and invoke rfkill
with his paws.
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Back from Lunch. Just another thing to look at.
(http://thumbnails110.imagebam.com/37402/e767f1374015823.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/e767f1374015823)
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Hi there. Thank you for being so kind and trying to help. Well, I cannot put a pretty box on the screen, but I did venture to take a look and see what I did have.
All I could see on the Network Connection, was
Ethernet
Wired connection 1 3 minutes ago.
Does this make any sense to you. There was no mention of WiFi to be seen.
Regards Walt
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My guess is that wifi may be switched off somehow. My netbook has an option to switch off the adapter but the only way to switch it on again is through BIOS. Worth checking before tearing out more hair! ;)
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I'm guessing this is desktop, with a WiFi USB device plugged in.?
If you click on the Network icon down in the bar near to the clock
Is there a "Tick" mark next to "Enable WiFi".?
If NO, try to click it to re-enable.
If YES,
click it to un-tick it to disable it, then re-boot, and then re-tick it to re-enable.
I have had an occasional it appeared to be enabled, but wasn't.
Dave
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I'm guessing this is desktop, with a WiFi USB device plugged in.?
If you click on the Network icon down in the bar near to the clock
Is there a "Tick" mark next to "Enable WiFi".?
If NO, try to click it to re-enable.
If YES,
click it to un-tick it to disable it, then re-boot, and then re-tick it to re-enable.
I have had an occasional it appeared to be enabled, but wasn't.
Dave
I had a similar issue with a USB plug-in wireless, would not seem to recognize it although it had before. I finally unplugged, plugged it into a different usp port and it worked.
Chris
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"Does this make any sense to you. There was no mention of WiFi to be seen.
Regards Walt"
Looks like you have no wireless interface though maybe eth1 is what it is, Maybe.
I am guessing though from the deserts of Texas on the Mexican Border.
So I still do not know how you connect your computer in the 1st place since you have not
said anything about it at all.
Edit: OK. I see wired connection. So I guess no wifi. But I do not know much on how you have yours set up.
Mine for example.
harry@biker1:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
[sudo] password for harry:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:9b:f3:78:61
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:16
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:6880 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6880 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:611393 (611.3 KB) TX bytes:611393 (611.3 KB)
wlan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:4e:75:de:95
inet addr:<filter> Bcast:192.168.254.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: <filter>/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26012 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25677471 (25.6 MB) TX bytes:3929035 (3.9 MB)
Try what the other posters suggested.
Happy Trails, Rok
Edit: Next morning. Woke up with the Flu. Some one is going to have to pick up the ball for me from here.
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> My guess is that wifi may be switched off somehow. My netbook has an option to switch off the adapter but the only way to switch it on again is through BIOS. Worth checking before tearing out more hair!
I agree. If the wifi was working fine - chances are high you accidentally hit wrong button(s). For example, on the eee 701 netbook, I could accidentally click Fn+F2 and toggle off the wifi. A simple repeat
Fn+F2 will toggle it on. Haven't figure out my current netbook, but I'm sure a hotkey shortcut is there. Dig up the manual for your netbook.
Sheng-Chieh
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Hello cypher000,
have you tried unplug power lead to modem/router, unplug TPLink dongle, wait 10 minutes plug power lead back in wait until all lights work then plug TPLink back in ?
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Hi Guy's. Just have to tell you that all is now back as it should be. Shut it all down and restarted. Connected TP-Link and off we went again. Cannot thank you all enough for the time you have devoted to getting me back online. Thank you, again and again. Regards to you all. Walt
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Hello cypher000,
it's good to read you are back online now :) and don't have to suffer under XP, it's what Linux Lite is about.
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Happy for you fella ! Keep it on .