So I suck. Frustrated with linux. Trying to make ATI card work but that's not to be handled in this thread. Just trying to install *whatever the crap is missing to make ati card work*. So I select a bunch of packages via Synaptic, install, reboot.

NOW I have a problem that my web browsing ceased working. I had to have installed something that's trying to maybe resolve addresses but is fighting with something else. As stated in Highlander movies: "there can be only one". So I've probably got a few packages in there fighting over who gets to send me to the internet.

argh.

Question: what packages should the village idiot not install on linux so that his internet browsing still works?
Question II: what does this village idiot do after the fact that his web browsers (all of them) cannot connect to websites? Is there a command like "debconf-reconfigure fix-my-internet-connectivity"?

I really don't want to reinstall AGAIN.....Any advice?

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There shouldn't be any package that stops it.

What type of connection do you have?
Are you able to obtain an IP address?