the resources i was refferring to are the Gateway config pafe(ip adress opening) and network HDs Jeremy Gransden <jeremy@gransdenonline.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">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. > > > > 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...) > > > > > > and one other set of emails... > > > 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. > > > 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) > > > > > -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </BLOCKQUOTE>