Need help to connect!

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 14/12/05, Juan Moreno <juanmoreno05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm running Ubuntu from an old laptop that does not have ethernet connection
> and has a usb port. Since I have Dsl, when I had windows, I connected to
> internet from the USB port through my router. But now, I have Ubuntu. I
> noticed that it detects the router in the device manager but there is no
> connection to internet and I need it !!

It detects the router? It might be a simple DNS problem then. Can you
ping IP addresses on the Internet?

-Eamonn