can't get online

[Ed Fletcher]

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Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I've just put Ubuntu onto a partition with FC4 and appart from the known
> conflict with some flags fedora has used in /boot, everything has gone well.
> 
> But, and a big but, I can't get online. I have a LAN broadband
> connection which usually works fine when I point to my providers login page.
> 
> I've configured the network card as DHCP and activated it. It makes no
> difference if I run as root.
> 
> How should I start fixing this problem?
> 
> Duncan

Duncan:

If you run ifconfig in a terminal, does it show an IP for eth0?
If yes, can you ping somewhere on your private lan? (If you have one.)
If yes, (or no lan) can you ping somewhere on the internet without
dns? - ping 66.94.234.13
If yes, can you ping using dns? - ping yahoo.com

If yes to all of these, then you are online.  If no to one of them,
let us know which one and what the error message was.

Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- - Helen Keller
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