OK, do you know the name of your network interface? It's usually something like "wlan0" or somesuch. You should be able to get it by poking around under the panel icon menu (or maybe even just hovering over the icon)
Anyways, if you do, try this: when you are connected to the network, open a terminal window and type: sudo dhclient <your interface name> Regs, /t On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:04 PM, ed_giuliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i can select the router, but i get a message saying connected (ip > address not acquired) > and i cant connect to the internet. ed > > On Nov 27, 3:47 am, tanguyr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Normally you connect to the router by just selecting it (ie there is >> no explicit "connect" option, you just click on the panel icon to see >> all the routers, then click on the router you want to connect to) >> >> /t >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:12 PM, ed_giuliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > i constantly loose my wireless connection while surfing or worse yet >> > while in the middle of a download. >> >> > when i click on the icon on the panel it shows the signal of the local >> > router but says disconnected, how can i connect? there doesn't seem to >> > be a connect option. >> >> > when the connection is lost i am forced to reboot, this seems to be >> > the only way to reestablish the connection. is there another option? >> >> > any help would be appreciated, thanks ed. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
