On 7/11/05, Dan Drake <dan.drake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a wireless network that works fine, for all but one computer.
> 
> This computer is running Debian unstable. It connects to the wireless
> network fine, and I can ping the router and connect to its
> administration web page...but nothing beyond that. I can't connect to
> *anything* beyond the router: not by name (umn.edu, etc) or IP address
> (128.101.101.101 is a DNS server at the U).
> 
> No other computer in the house has a problem. This computer worked
> fine until several days ago. I haven't changed anything in the network
> configuration. Rebooting doesn't change anything. The most recent
> version of Knoppix doesn't even boot; it hangs when detecting AGP.  An
> older version of Knoppix had the same network problem, but the CD was
> a bit wonky.
> 
> Any ideas what's wrong? Should I demote this machine to a doorstop?
> 
> Dan
> 
> --


I ran into issues with Ubuntu which is Debian based.  The googles I
got back seemed to point to Ipv6 being enabled by default as a
culprit.  That could be your case too.