Connected to WIFI but browser won't load any pages.

[Zapmaster]

i looked through this just now. Compare your 15 character macc address in Lubuntu with the logical name you listed before for your wifi collection. I have a feeling ndiswrapper was not completely installed before you installed the drivers in LL.

Also out of curiosity are you on 17.xx Lubu?

TC

Yes, 17.10, here is what I get in Lubuntu, looks exactly the same far as I can see except logical name starts with wlx instead of enx:

  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: enp0s25
       version: 02
       serial: bc:30:5b:9b:95:c3
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.4-3 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:35 memory:f7ae0000-f7afffff memory:f7ad9000-f7ad9fff ioport:ece0(size=32)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: firewire@2
       logical name: wlx58ef68a7b570
       serial: 58:ef:68:a7:b5:70
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmfmac driverversion=5.90.188.22 firmware=5.90.188.22 ip=192.168.0.135 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

[trinidad]

i looked through this just now. Compare your 15 character macc address in Lubuntu with the logical name you listed before for your wifi collection. I have a feeling ndiswrapper was not completely installed before you installed the drivers in LL.

Also out of curiosity are you on 17.xx Lubu?

TC

[Zapmaster]

Thanks for the help and suggestion guys. But I gave up and installed Lubuntu on this PC, wifi works fine now. Oh well can't fix everything all the time.

[rokytnji]

Have you unplugged and reset your router yet? They need to be unplugged for about a minute sometimes to straighten them out.

[gold_finger]

@ Zapmaster,


Do you have a second browser installed to the system?  If so, does that one work?  If you don't, install another browser and see if problem is only with Firefox.  (You can delete/uninstall it later if don't want to keep it.)  Go to Menu -> System -> Lite Software, then install the Chromium browser.  After install, find it under Internet section of Menu and see if it works.


If you discover that problem is only with Firefox then maybe you're experiencing same thing that I did just a few days ago -- other browsers worked, but not Firefox.  For me solution was to follow instructions on this page to disable both IPv6 and DNS Prefetching.  Try that and see if it straightens out problem for you too.


P.s.  Problems for me happened after recent update to Firefox.  Was working fine before the update.

[TheDead]

I re-read your post and have two other suggestions.
I had similar problems in the past with disconnections "on usage".
1. Try temporarily disabling your WiFi encryption, sometines WPA2 encryption is not fully compatible between routers and workstation and disconnects upon transfert "load". Or using WEP instead for testing purpose.
2. On a similar subject, but this one dates back to the first "high-speed" internet days. Check your MTU seeting in router and also card settings. Same with Jumbo packet settings. I have seen, different configs make the connection drop or slow down to a crawl maknig pages timeout or be innaccessible.

Good luck!

- TD

[bitsnpcs]

Hello @Zapmaster ,

it can be power saving mode, it suspends power to the usb and this kills the wifi/drops connection.

There are some ways to solve it, but I am unsure how to solve it.

There is some info here on detecting and fixing this issue -
http://hamwaves.com/usb.autosuspend/en/index.html

[Zapmaster]

The router normally just works with the password.  Do I need to manually assign it's id in the settings somewhere as well?

Have you set it up as here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/network.html#wireless

Yea I did, like I wrote in my topic post the wifi connects fine and the signal shows as strong the whole time, but internet won't work past two seconds after it initially connects.

[bitsnpcs]

The router normally just works with the password.  Do I need to manually assign it's id in the settings somewhere as well?

Have you set it up as here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/network.html#wireless

[WytWun]

You don't say which browser you're using but I had a somewhat similar experience a few days ago with Firefox interfering with my attempts to configure a DSL router.  This behaviour turned out to be due to a new feature in a recent update known as captive portal detection.  It seems this feature is supposed to make use of wifi APs with logins easier, but it might be worth finding out more about it if you use Firefox.  I had to disable it to complete my router configuration...

[Zapmaster]

Hello @Zapmaster,

have you set up your router ID and password in to the wifi settings ?

@bayoubooger  sounds a very frustrating morning, good to see you are back online now

The router normally just works with the password.  Do I need to manually assign it's id in the settings somewhere as well?

[bitsnpcs]

Hello @Zapmaster,

have you set up your router ID and password in to the wifi settings ?

@bayoubooger  sounds a very frustrating morning, good to see you are back online now

[TheDead]

Hello,

Before trying the ndiswrapper. If it was available...
Did you plug the computer with an ethernet cable and do the updates, reboot, and do a driver scan?
This solved many problem for me on Linux Lite and other unmentionnable commercial OS.

Cheers!

- TD

[Zapmaster]

I am not allowed to click link, sorry.
Someone will hopefully reply soon who will check this for you.

Oh sorry,  I went and pasted it on a USB, here it is:

root@gologo-OptiPlex-780:/home/gologo# sudo lshw -class network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: enp0s25
       version: 02
       serial: bc:30:5b:9b:95:c3
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.4-3 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:33 memory:f7ae0000-f7afffff memory:f7ad9000-f7ad9fff ioport:ece0(size=32)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: enx58ef68a7b570
       serial: 58:ef:68:a7:b5:70
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwlhigh5 driverversion=1.61+Linksys, LLC,06/10/2011, 5. ip=10.0.44.111 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
root@gologo-OptiPlex-780:/home/gologo#

I should add that I am able to connect to nearby hotels wifi, but it's just one of those web pages with a login, but I can click around on it (see terms and conditions, etc.). So maybe it's some kind of security setting causing the issue? Since connecting to hotels login page doesn't require any kind of password/username.

[bayoubooger]

had the same problem all morning, my cable went out...