Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

[Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com>]

On 1/18/16, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:04:38 -0500
> Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> . . . Okay.
>>
>> The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the
>> outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost.
>>
>> So, does dhcp functionality need to be installed and/or set up
>> separately for openbox?
>>
>> And if so, how?
>>
>
> It should be present in all installations, independent of window
> manager. It is a dependency of several networking packages.
>
> The current package in all distributions since squeeze, I believe, is
> isc-dhcp-client.
>
> Does /sbin/ifconfig show the network interfaces you expect to see (i.e.
> not just lo)?
>
> --
> Joe
>
>


Hi, Joe.

1)   isc-dhcp-client is installed.  Apt-get says that it "is already
the newest version". (Debian 8 stable, 64-bit, with security, updates,
and backports, on standard x86 machine).

2)   Yes, /sbin/ifconfig shows:
eth0
lo
wlan0
as expected.

Specifically,

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:15104 (14.7 KiB)  TX bytes:15104 (14.7 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:192.168.0.3  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: ::226:5eff:fe90:6885/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:5eff:fe90:6885/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: ::e452:3eab:1f59:dab3/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3156391 (3.0 MiB)  TX bytes:851035 (831.0 KiB)

I need to connect through wlan0 (and can from xfce), which is how I
can send this email.

The problem doesn't seem to be the wireless driver, etc. In openbox I
can ping localhost (127.0.0.1), but can't ping the router or beyond,
which is why I am guessing that somehow xfce is set up for dhcp, but
openbox is not.

(btw, putting nm-applet into ~/.config/openbox/autostart did not seem
to solve the problem).

Question: maybe does ~/.config/openbox/autostart need to be owner:
root and group: root?