network issue

[Jeremy Gransden]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 17:52 -0700, mike williams wrote:
> ill admit that im new to Linux,but i still aint a dumbut with
> technology. I try to use firefox(FF ill use for short) to browse the
> web. it cant find webpages but it can open netowrk resources

What resources are you talking about?

>  and my other OS(WinXP) can browse web pages just fine. I was told to
> use "man route" 
This will show you the man page for the route command. Type 

 
man route

Into a terminal window.

Also 
man ifconfig 

will show you how to use the ifconfig command

> but i dont know how to set it up and the 2 people that responded told
> me to look it up in the PDFs and what not and i cant find anything,if
> someone could explain in the email how to do man route or copy paste
> the manaul bit on it into the email,id aprreciate it.(i use a Gateway
> to connect to the internet and it already has DHCP just incase its
>  needed infoand before i forget,i have Dapper installed onto a
> partition already) here's a copy of the previous emials i got on this.
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> I haven't been following your threads, but it seems like you're quite 
> new to Ubuntu and Linux in general. Check out this link--it will 
> probably answer most, if not all, of your configuration and usage 
> questions regarding Dapper.
> 
> http://www.ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper
> 
> mike williams wrote:
> 
> > what info do i have to enter to configure(ie:network
> address,gateway 
> > ip,dns address etc...) 
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> and one other set of emails...
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> > I think I would start with the Ubuntu Desktop Manual chapter 4 (see
> > link) (note: I like to DL the PDF file and use it on my computer):
> >  
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/
> Actually, the Ubuntu Desktop Guide is already installed on your system
> per default and is easily available from the System menu under Help ->
> System Documentation. From there you can search all of the help topics
> directly.
> 
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> Again,id really appreciate if someone just copy pastes the man route
> setup info or types the info into the email body itself.(you can also
> just add as an attachment)
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