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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">> Ah, so the laptop
was plugged in to one of the four ports of the wifi<br>
> router
physically. You should probably double check it had a<br>
>
192.168.x.x IP address at this point.<br>
>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">ping -n 192.168.0.1</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">PING 192.168.0.1
(192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=0.408 ms</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=0.417 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=127 time=0.412 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=127 time=0.414 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=127 time=0.438 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=127 time=0.419 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">64 bytes from
192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=127 time=0.414 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">^C</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">--- 192.168.0.1 ping
statistics ---</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">7 packets transmitted,
7 received, 0% packet loss, time 5999ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">rtt min/avg/max/mdev =
0.408/0.417/0.438/0.020 ms</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">traceroute -n
80.87.128.36
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">traceroute to
80.87.128.36 (80.87.128.36), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 1 192.168.0.1 0.356
ms 0.340 ms 0.315 ms
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 2 10.219.60.1 16.922
ms 16.954 ms 16.862 ms
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 3 81.100.0.61 16.702
ms * *
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 4 * * *
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 5 * * *
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 6 * * *
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 7 * 212.43.163.89
9.953 ms 9.553 ms
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 8 213.152.245.49
21.289 ms 21.312 ms 17.733 ms
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> 9 64.125.28.197
32.123 ms 30.871 ms 30.874 ms
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">10 213.152.252.220
32.162 ms 51.736 ms 52.209 ms
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">11 80.87.128.36
52.065 ms 44.928 ms 35.390 ms
</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">$ cat /etc/resolv.conf</div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">nameserver 192.168.0.1</div>
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<br>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
> The problem is
that your wifi router might have been having a whale of a<br>
>
time remaining connected to the Internet, but you'd not have known
this<br>
> whilst your laptop was unable to connect to it.<br>
>
<br>
> How long did you give it? Your laptop would need to forget
its eth0<br>
> config, and decide to go back to wireless, after
which it would need to<br>
> re-dhcp eth1 and pick up and IP
(possibly the same one) and def.gw<br>
> automatically to get going
again.<br>
> <br>
> Did it work immediately on plugging the
network cable back in to the<br>
> wifi router?<br>
>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The wicd manager
immediately trying to connect my wireless connection after I
unplugged the cable from the laptop.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
> When you
unplugged the network cable, and let wicd do its stuff, could<br>
>
you ping 192.168.0.1 over the wireless link ? This was the part
that<br>
> you had working last time. If you can ping that but the
Internet<br>
> connection isn't working (traceroute -n
80.87.128.36), then we have to<br>
> assume some weird MAC address
complaining from your cable router. If<br>
> you can no longer ping
192.168.0.1, then we've somehow regressed from<br>
> what you had
working at the start of this thread.<br>
>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">after I unplugged the
cable from the laptop
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">ping -n 192.168.0.1
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">connect: Network is
unreachable
</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">traceroute -n
80.87.128.36
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">traceroute to
80.87.128.36 (80.87.128.36), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">connect: Network is
unreachable
</div>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lucy
</div>
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