Internet on Ubuntu 7.04 turion 64-bit

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Jun 15 00:25:00 UTC 2007


David VandeBunte wrote:
> Ubuntu takes a long time "Requesting a network address from the wired network"
> and finally gets connected, saying "Conncetion Established - you are now connected
> to the wired network."  Yet when I click on Firefox it just sits for a long time
> until saying it can't find the server at google.

After it says "Connection Established", can you open the console
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommandlineHowto) and enter

ifconfig

then

ping google.com

and reply with all the output.

Thanks,

Matt Flaschen




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