Hi

i am having some issue getting my desktop to connect to the internet and i have tried everything i can think of to fix the problem. It was working fine with windowx XP but suddenly stopped. I assumed it was a windows thing and i had had enough with windows so i now have ubuntu 6.06 on it. Here is what i have tried so far with no luck yet:

- problem started in winXP
- reformatted, and replaced winXP with ubuntu 6.06
- Installed new linksys network card (both the new linksys PCI card, and the original nforce motherboard network card show up correctly in ubuntu).
- enabled both network adaptors in the ubuntu networking window
- tried to ping a website in a terminal as suggested. Got teh respons: "ping: uknown host www(dot)google(dot)com"
- restored factory defaults in the BIOS.
- ran idential network cord to my laptop etheret port, and internet works fine on laptop (in both windows and ubuntu).

any help at all would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

Yikes! That's not such a good idea - replacing your operating system when something in -another- operating system stops working... it makes it virtually impossible to accurately isolate the problem. It can be just about anything. In Linux you might have not configured something correctly (and this is causing it to malfunction in Linux) while in Windows, well... Windows being Windows it might be something that fell over because your installation was stale (i. e. was installed too long between reinstalls). I've experienced this myself.

Your best approach might have been to simply first reinstall Windows, and see if the problem persists. It might be that you have some kind of hardware fault on your system... can you ping any machines on a local network? Since you say your laptop is working as regards connections, it must mean your local network infrastructure is ok. In Linux, when you installed ubuntu, did you configure a gateway, machine address, and DNS info?

try pinging an IP address not a domain name, it could be an error with your DNS, Both devices connect via a router or some such?