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Auteur: Hendrik Boom
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] trouble with wifi one step away
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:02:07PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I'm looking for ideas to solve this problem.
>
> Something's wrong. When I an in myt regular coffee shop, my phone has
> no trouble using the wifi, but my Devuan laptop cannot.
>
> My laptop will connect to the coffee shop'w wifi modem, which has IP
> number 172.16.0.1 and gives me IP number 182.16.0.194, but there seems
> to be no route from it to anywhere, not even DNS lookup.


I think that was a typo when I wrote the message, but I won't be able
to check until I'm at the coffee shop again next Monday.

>
> The /etc/resolv.conf file says that for DNS I should go to 172.16.0.1,
> which is the local wifi modem.
>
> I seem to be able to reach the local wifi modem, but it will ot
> connect me further.
>
> Why would my phone be able to commect but my computer not? This has
> been consistent for a few weeks now.
>
> -- hendrik
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