Ping is your friend. -wes
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, 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
