<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello Mike, I tried another command I once read in a post: ip addr show Ubuntu 10.04 replied: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:01:29:fb:37:b9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:01:29:fb:38:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Is this of any help to you (and me)? kind regards, Daniel On 23-7-2011 4:59, Mike Kupfer wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:2560.1311389969@rawbw.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">D. Hoogland wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">What do I have to do to get the connection to the Internet back again? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I would try to (re)start nm-applet. Start a terminal window (under Accessories from the Applications menu), then type the command nm-applet (followed by pressing the Enter key). mike </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>