network issue

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi Mike,

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:52:56 -0700 (PDT)
mike williams <a-bracmike at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> ill admit that im new to Linux,

first of all, wellcome to a new world of technology, where you
will need to work hard in order to become as familiar as you
already are in your "other OS"

>but i still aint a dumbut with
> technology. 
Surely not, but admittedly this is how people sometimes feel
when beginning their way to the seemingly strange land of
Linux.


I try to use firefox(FF ill use for short) to
> browse the web. it cant find webpages but it can open netowrk
> resources and my other OS(WinXP) can browse web pages just
> fine. 


-ok, if you take your "other OS" to begin with, how exactly is
your network setup in XP? 
Most probably you will use dhcp, but let's
try to be sure.


-Now, what exactly is the ip adress of your gateway device?

-Back to Ubuntu, what is the output of the command 'sudo
ifconfig'
(this means something like "show me the configuration of the
network interfaces that are configured within my computer".)

regards and I am sure, you'll soon be a very happy Ubuntu user

Eberhard