Another Newbie Question...

[lawsonfulton]

I just installed Kubuntu as a dual boot with windows on my laptop.
My problem is i cannot connect to the internet.

The windows side can connect perfectly fine and do everything with the internet but in kubuntu i just get a message saying

An error occurred while loading http://www.example.com
Unknown host http://www.example.com

I'm using the konqueror browser

I'm not using a router at the moment just connecting straight into the cable modem.

I hope this can be fixed

Thanks

[Vergil83]

Are just using a wired ethernet connection? Try running

sudo ifup eth0

After this, does the interent work. Also try

ifconfig

and post the result

[lawsonfulton]

ifup did not do anything it just said interace eth0 already configured.

the results of ifconfig were

ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:09:ED:10:16
          inet addr:24.150.75.196  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:826 (826.0 b)  TX bytes:684 (684.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:396 (396.0 b)  TX bytes:396 (396.0 b)

i'm using a wired connection

[lawsonfulton]

ok i got a new ethernet cable so i can go through my router now.

I dont know if that changes anything.

[lawsonfulton]

YAAAAY!!!

It seems i answered my own question.

I just went to staples to get an extra Ethernet cable so i could connect my laptop through my router and it fixed my problem!

I have no idea how this happened but I'm happy.

Thanks anyways though.

Lawson