How do you know his wireless is working OK? Some notebooks have physical switches/sliders to turn the Wifi on and off. Maybe he accidentally turned it off. There are lots of other possible causes, but that one is easy to check. The switch is sometimes accompanied by an Led indicating if the Wifi is on.
Bill On Mar 17, 2010 1:02 AM, "Randy Stapilus" <[email protected]> wrote: Around Thanksgiving I picked up a notebook at Free Geek, outfitted with Ubuntu, for use by my brother in law in northern California. We also set up a wireless broadband system for the house. His computer literacy is very limited, but he just uses it mainly for web surfing, and for the last four months it has been working fine. Yesterday, he started it up and seems to be blocked from going online. All the wireless and modem equipment seems to be operating as per normal, and the notebook is otherwise functioning okay. I've tried a few basic checks to try to figure out what the problem is, but no luck. Firefox had the "work offline" box checked at one point, but we got it de-checked and it's still not connecting. (The error messages we get, when asking the browser to go to a URL, have been "server not found.") BIL would not have *intentionally* made any changes to settings, but might have inadvertently done something - the computer's touch pad and even keyboard are very sensitive. His ISP, AT&T, wants extortionate amounts of money to put someone on the line and work it through. (Apparently Linux isn't included in their basic support.) Any suggestions? Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
