I'm having a weird behavior on my Mint13 laptop: On my own wireless internet connection, everything is working fine. But if I add some new wireless connection, even an open one without encryption, I can connect, ping IP addresses (I use 8.8.8.8 ) but I cannot ping to any DNS name.
ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.
56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=423 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=346 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=57 time=369 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 346.078/379.832/423.816/32.550 ms
nslookup 8.8.8.8
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Is seems DNS is not resolving to any new connections but on my own everything works fine.
While connected to my own working wifi:
(I'll add the results from another non-working connection when I connect myself to one)
sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Gateway2Hell"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 28:9A:FA:3D:08:18
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=36/70 Signal level=-74 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:51 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Endereço de HW 00:03:0d:9f:ee:eb
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
pacotes RX:0 erros:0 descartados:0 excesso:0 quadro:0
Pacotes TX:0 erros:0 descartados:0 excesso:0 portadora:0
colisões:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
IRQ:41 Endereço de E/S:0x6000
lo Link encap:Loopback Local
inet end.: 127.0.0.1 Masc:255.0.0.0
endereço inet6: ::1/128 Escopo:Máquina
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Métrica:1
pacotes RX:0 erros:0 descartados:0 excesso:0 quadro:0
Pacotes TX:0 erros:0 descartados:0 excesso:0 portadora:0
colisões:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet Endereço de HW 00:10:60:36:23:7c
inet end.: 192.168.0.243 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Masc:255.255.255.0
endereço inet6: fe80::210:60ff:fe36:237c/64 Escopo:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
pacotes RX:3177 erros:0 descartados:0 excesso:0 quadro:0
Pacotes TX:2593 erros:0 descartados:0 excesso:0 portadora:0
colisões:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2662331 (2.6 MB) TX bytes:436687 (436.6 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 216.58.210.110
The hosts file seems clean and legit.
cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 mint13
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
When I use MATE's network manager to connect to a new wireless connection, it behaves kinda weird: sometimes it does not detect the network (the SSID does not show up in there), or if it does it does not ask me for a password. If I create a new connection and enter everything manually, it will connect but only ping by IP address and not by DNS name.
I've got 2 kernels (2.6.39-02063904-generic and 3.2.66-030266-generic) and it behaves the same way with both of them, so I think we can exclude kernel problems here...
Any help troubleshooting this one, please?
