Internet connection?

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/09/19 11:29), Dave Stevens wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>:
>
>> Good morning
>> Running Xubuntu 14.04 (tuxtrans) on a Dell Inspiron 1545.
>>
>> As I said above, the "update/upgrade" via a terminal command worked.
>> So did the "Software update" function.
>>
>> What am I supposed to look for now?
>> Thank you.
>> Thomas
>>
>
> a good test for internet connectivity is to try to ping another 
> machine. Open a terminal and type in
>
> "ping cira.ca" without the quotes and push "enter"
>
> and see if you get a series of return messages.
>
>
> This is what I get and is normal:
>
> PING cira.ca (192.228.29.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=165 ms
> 64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=168 ms
> 64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=170 ms
> 64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=168 ms
> ^C
>
>
> You can substitute another web site as long as you know for sure it 
> works. You can end the series of replies from the site by typing 
> Control-C.
>
> If you get a "network unreachable" message then you aren't getting out.
>
> You can back off one step then and see if you can ping your router, 
> its address will be something along the lines of 192.168.1.1 but that 
> varies with each different manufacturer.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dave
>
Thank  you.
I tried that "ping" thing and it gave me the response you said it would 
(see below)
The "software-center" command resulted in a response that looks bad, but 
I have no idea what is actually wrong or what to do about it ...

thomas at einklang:~$ ping cira.ca
PING cira.ca (192.228.29.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=169 ms
64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=235 time=170 ms
64 bytes from www.cira.ca (192.228.29.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=235 time=169 ms
^C

thomas at einklang:~$ software-center
2014-09-19 19:01:13,501 - softwarecenter.backend.zeitgeist_logger - 
WARNING - Support for Zeitgeist disabled
2014-09-19 19:01:13,593 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up 
proxy 'None'
2014-09-19 19:01:14,048 - softwarecenter.region - WARNING - failed to 
use geoclue: 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.Geoclue.Master was not provided by any .service files'
2014-09-19 19:01:14,102 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - 
Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2014-09-19 19:01:14,104 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating 
plugin '<module 'webapps_activation' from 
'/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
2014-09-19 19:01:14,178 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO 
- aptcache.open()
Bus error