Help: No internet connection
Simon Andrews
simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Tue Dec 15 17:05:21 UTC 2009
On 11/12/2009 23:27, Simon Schneebeli wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Simon Schneebeli writes:
>>> Through the network connection, I manage to establish a connection
>>> with my wireless ADSL model. It also works through a wired
>>> connection. Ping works. But neither Firefox nor any other programme
>>> manage to establish a connection.
>>
>> Define "ping works".
> If I type at the command line "ping google.com" it gets an answer...
OK. If you're getting a positive response from that command then your
basic network connection, DNS and routing must all be working. There
isn't much more to go wrong.
What do you get if you type:
wget www.google.com
into a shell?
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