ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 85, Issue 67

[Alan Duval]

On 14/09/2011 10:00 PM,

Md Ashickur Rahman Noor<ashickur.noor at gmail.com>

wrote
> Try to test ping
>
>> ping google.com
>>
> See what happen.
No result.
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>
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Alan Duval<amoht at westnet.com.au>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My taskbar shows that I have an internet connection but Firefox isn't able
>> to connect with the internet lately.
>> Don't know if this happened after I installed a DVD copying program.
>> Any suggestions as to how to get Firefox connecting again?
>> Thunderbird also cant connect.
>>
>> Alan Duval
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>> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:26:32 +1000
>> From: Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Re: Failed Firefox connection
>>
>>
>> On 14/09/11 18:33, Alan Duval wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My taskbar shows that I have an internet connection
> What exactly on your "taskbar" is showing that you have internet connection?
>
> Or is it that whatever in on your taskbar is simply showing that your
> computer is connected to the modem - but has nothing to do with being
> connected to the internet.
Just the connect symbol shows. So perhaps you are right that it only 
indicates that the computer is connected to the Router and not to the 
internet. I don't know much about internet connections.
>> but Firefox isn't able to connect with the internet lately.
>> Don't know if this happened after I installed a DVD copying program.
> Why should installing a DVD copying program have anything to do with
> connecting to the internet? What are your reasons for concluding this
> and asking this question?
Don't know, but Firefox was connecting to the internet before and it has 
only been since I installed the DVD copying program that Firefox can't 
connect.
>> Any suggestions as to how to get Firefox connecting again?
>> Thunderbird also cant connect.
> Inability to connect to your ISP is usually caused by having incorrect
> settings - including account name and password - in your modem's
> configuration or the wrong settings in your Firefox and Thunderbird
> configuration. Have you checked these out to ensure that they are correct?
>
> BC
Well they were before and I haven't altered anything except sometime 
back I changed the password to log in to the router from admin to 
another but that hasn't stopped Firefox in WIN 7 from accessing the 
internet.

Alan