Another stupid Ubuntu question...

[epineh]

Well as the title says, I have a Ubuntu Question, mainly connecting to the internet, I have installed the system, got EMC to boot, no probs.

I thought I would connect to the internet via ADSL modem I have.

Plugged in, I can ping the PC's on my home network, I can ping websites eg I pinged www.google.com no probs.

Problem is opening a browser, it can't seem to connect to the internet, I have run pppoeconf, but it returns with Access Concentrator of your provider did not respond.

Any ideas? Seems strange I can ping internet pages but not browse.

Cheers.

Russell.

[unterhaus]

I can't really help with your question, did you get it fixed?
I searched for Ubuntu ADSL modem and got lots of hits. One said just to run the live cd of ubuntu with the modem attached:
http://witopia.blogspot.com/2006/07/...in-ubuntu.html

The other one gave a long list of commands which makes me hope that the live cd approach works:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/2797

[NGinuity]

If you can ping the PC's in your home network, that must mean they share they same internet connection. If you set your network card configuration to DHCP, it should auto config the settings (IP Address, netmask, default gateway, DNS servers) from your router, or whatever you are using. You should then be able to connect to the internet.

[epineh]

Yup that's what I thought, but it isn't working. I think there is underlying hardware issues, I might get hold of a new machine and try again, this doesn't seem to make any sense.

I re-installed and now it seems the network card (onboard LAN) may be faulty, I tried a PCI card but no go, again it was an old one so I may lash out and buy another one, or trash the lot and get a new PC.

Cheers.

Russell.

[svenakela]

Start a terminal and write following:
telnet www.cnczone.com 80
The prompt may disappear but write GET and the hit Enter.
If you get a lot of html output from cnczone, you are out on the net.

[NGinuity]

If you are able to ping anything...it isn't a faulty network card. By nature, it's doing it's job. Even if it is the card, I wouldn't trash the pc for a 15 dollar network card problem.....

The comparison would be shooting a horse for throwing a shoe :-)

[epineh]

It was more that the problem was intermittent, now the PC doesn't even recognize the onboard or PCI card LAN cards, cannot ping anything, and nothing has been changed.

Russell.

[NGinuity]

So the entire PCI Bus is trashed? Not good :-/

[epineh]

Not really, at least it was free

[epineh]

The usb side of things seems to work, I might try plugging wireless in before it's off to become landfill.

I just thought direct cabling would have been easier...now to find where I left that ndiswrapper...

[epineh]

I have installed on another system, and now I can ping any web page I want to, including cnczone... but Firefox is unable to browse the www.

I have tried changing preferences to direct connection to internet, and auto-detect proxy settings, only thing I haven't tried is manual proxy config, didn't think I needed to since the LAN is set on DHCP and working as far as I can see, I can see PC's on the LAN, and can ping the www.

Is there something I need to do to get firefox to work ?

I didn't think the EMC install of Ubuntu disables any internet access at all, but maybe...

Russell.

[NGinuity]

I have seen some funky instances of Firefox on unix platforms where you have to close all windows and bring up a new one before the changes take effect. You should just be able to make a direct connection to the internet if you are able to ping websites from the console. Give that a try.