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I'm using an Asus G50V and I'm completely new to ubuntu. I just installed it and can connect to the internet with a wired connection and through wireless from my windows vista that I installed wubi on, and I can connect to my wireless network, but I can't actually connect to the internet through my wireless network.

Thanks in advance.

  • Network controller is an Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 according to lspci if that helps

  • Also, the connection somehow started working after I decided to unplug my ethernet cable for the third time and headed upstairs after giving up for the day.. not sure how it happened, but after restarting, the connection stopped working again..

  • Wifi works on 11.10, but stops working when I upgrade back to 12.04..

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I have similar issue. I had 11.10 and then I upgraded to 12.04 and the internet connection was ok. Two days ago, however, i could not browser or ping any site. However my wired and wireless connection is showing connected. I got Ubuntu 12.04 live cd and the same problem I tried 11.10 live cd and I can connect to internet without any issue. Any suggestion would be appreciated. I am using MacBook Pro with Athero eth0. It's a dual boot system. There is not issue with Mac OS X connecting to the internet. Thank you for your help.

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To solve the issue, i reinstalled 11.10 and internet was working. I upgraded to 12.04 and when prompted to remove old packages I choose the option to keep them and hoped my internet would still work and it did. – user20120204 May 5 '12 at 20:24
I tried that, and it does work on 11.10, but it doesn't work when I upgrade back to 12.04. Thanks for the advice though; I guess I'll just have to stick with 11.10 until they make a fix for this. – Eddy May 6 '12 at 13:07
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I had a similar problem. My problem was the following. I could connect to the router but I had no access to the internet. It could be a problem with the DNS servers. Try deleting the file /etc/resolv.conf. This solved my problem.

In detail my problem was the following. I could connect to the router and I could connect to another computer as long as I used the actual IP address but I could not connect using a normal URL (www.foo.foo). So if you can connect to your router (e.g. 192.168.1.254 or 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1) and not the internet it is possibly a problem with the DNS.

Delete the file and see if the problem is solved

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Erm, sorry to be bothersome, but I'm not really sure how to do that (new to Linux and all).. I found both a resolv.conf file and a resolvconf folder in the /etc/ folder, and when I right click them the 'Move to Trash' option can't be selected. – Eddy May 12 '12 at 15:07
Okay, so I deleted the file but I still wasn't able to connect to the internet.. – Eddy Jun 2 '12 at 18:38
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eddy, to delete it open nautilus as superuser(and you should learn more about superuser :P) type this in terminal: sudo nautilus, and i recommend you do rename the file, not to delete it.. be careful when using sudo command, you can destroy your OS :D

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Thanks, I was able to delete it, but it didn't fix the problem.. – Eddy Jun 2 '12 at 18:37
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On Ubuntu 12.04 both wired and wireless network was working fine for about a month but suddenly both wired and wireless stopped working.

So I just deleted /etc/resolv.conf, disconnected wireless and reconnected and now everything seems to work fine now.

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I already tried deleting that a while ago and it didn't really help.. – Eddy Jul 13 '12 at 14:29

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