#1 2022-08-18 14:03:10

jjanderson5

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Registered: 2016-05-10

Posts: 155

Wifi connection made established, but cannot ping local server

I am running Buster --> BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 10.5 (Lithium)

My ethernet network is working properly, but when I try to make a wifi connection, I cannot ping the local server.

When I click on the networking icon and select my local server, 'NETGEAR83', a notification window pops up and says 'Connection Established - You are now connected to the Wi-Fi network "NETGEAR83".

I then try to ping my router:

    ping 192.168.1.1

and get:

    PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
    From 192.168.1.244 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.244 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.244 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.244 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

When the notification that the connection has been established, I have always been able to ping the router. Any suggestions on what to look at?

Jim A.

rbh

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From: South of Lapplands inland

Registered: 2016-08-11

Posts: 1,921

Re: Wifi connection made established, but cannot ping local server

I am running Buster --> BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 10.5 (Lithium)

Have you made a network installation of BL (installed basic Debian Buster (just cli) and then installed the Lithium packages and necessary debian packages), or did ju install standard BunsenLabs Lithium?

When I click on the networking icon and select my local server, 'NETGEAR83', a notification window pops up and says 'Connection Established - You are now connected to the Wi-Fi network "NETGEAR83".

Is there some misunderstanding here or is realy  your "local server" also a Wireless router?
You mean you have a Netgear Wireless router, you want to connect to?

When the notification that the connection has been established, I have always been able to ping the router.

You wrote about this problem last december: [closed - unresolved] Cannot make a wifi connection
Is it the same problem and you have decided to solve it or did you fix it after december and it again is broken?

Any suggestions on what to look at?

when connected to the wifi router, du you get an ip-adress for the wifi-chip? To investigate, execute command: 

$ ip a

If your wifi card doesn't receive ip-adress, can you request one with command

$ sudo dhclient -v # flagg -v for verbose output

If you do not get an ip-adress you have to look at the device that hands out the dhcp-leases (your server or the netgear router...)

Other good commands to use for wifi-information, is "nmcli", "inxi -nxz" and "ip route".

Edit:
Can you use wifi if you boot to live session with BL iso?

Last edited by rbh (2022-08-19 20:47:57)

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Peregrino69

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Registered: 2016-03-11

Posts: 99

Re: Wifi connection made established, but cannot ping local server

Another thought - do you use a VPN?

I run into this just 2 days ago; unable to ping any local network devices while internet connection worked just fine. I was also able to access the router's GUI, just ping failed. The culprit turned out to be my VPN, and the solution was whitelisting the local network in the client.