<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000066"> Lisi wrote: <blockquote id="mid_200912011736_32568_lisi_reisz_gmail_com" cite="mid:200912011736.32568.lisi.reisz@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Can I just uninstall Network Manager (Network Mangler???) and create an /etc/network/interfaces file? It isn't that it isn't connecting at all, it not connecting properly. Ping works - by IP and by URL. (Once I have persuaded network manager to start the connection. :-( ) IP address in browser works (after a fashion) for some sites but not for others. URL in browser is completely non-functional. LinuxMint on this exact set-up was a disaster - but at least it connected properly by DHCP. All help most gratefully received!! (Honestly, Myriam - I really am grateful - just very pushed for time on this particular job.) Lisi </pre> </blockquote> Okay,... Did you try running "dhclient" in a terminal? Did you ping your router if you are connected to one? If so, forget the question. >From the above I can tell you pinged a site(s) online. Compare the response times to your router response time if you have one. Else, forget the suggestion. Is Network Manager set to automatically connect? The URL being non-functional suggests no DN Server, thus the question about running "dhclient". After your response to this, we can go further to find the trouble. (Keep in mind that for some reason 'ping' will work when all else fails, even sometimes when a firewall is set to block all connections to the internet. This is the way it was designed to work. When I was still working for a telecommunitions company they once set the intranet so we could not get certain connections. I 'pinged' the URL and got the IP address and used it in Internet Explorer to go to that site anyway. They eventually blocked the IPs as well. Google was one.) Tom Bell <pre class="moz-signature" cols="50">-- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), Roman Poet, late 1st, early 2nd century AD ("Who will protect us from the protectors?") </pre> </body> </html>