Internet not working

[flocka]

I installled ubuntu yesternight, and I've been able to connect to the internet, but every time I try to go to any site it says that the connection has timed out.
Can someone please help me?

[Manko10]

Could you please give as a little more information about what's your system setup?
Can you ping foreign hosts on the console? What does ifconfig say? Can you ping your router? Which network card are you using? etc. etc.
That would help us identifying your problem but without we can't help you.

[flocka]

I have no idea what anything you just said means.

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

What he means is... what else have you tested or tried?

Can you ping an address? or your router?
Open a terminal and do

ping www.google.com

Does it timeout or give a reply?
In the same terminal, type

ifconfig

and hit <enter>
This will tell you if you have an IP address.
And finally... what network card are you using? Are you wireless or wired?

If you don't know what card it is, in the terminal type

lspci

and post the output here.

[flocka]

What is this terminal?

And to give some background on this computer, before I had ubuntu on it, it was running xp and got a virus so that the only web browsing application it could use was firefox. Then I installed Ubuntu.

[oz]

What is this terminal?

Welcome to the forums!

The terminal is a place to enter text commands. Look for it in your apps menu, or you might have an icon for a terminal in one of your panels running across the screen.

[flocka]

alright, ummm I'm using a wireless network thing. I don't know the card. Does it not help to know that I'm connected?
when I typed in ping the google ifconfig it said
pingL unknown host ifconfig, and when I did the other thing it said alooooot of stuff.

[jayd512]

If you are 'connected', then you should be surfing the internet... something has gone awry and we need some info to be able help you.

Since you found the terminal, and managed to get those commands put in correctly, do them one more time. When you get the output from those commands, just copy/paste the output and report back with it.