JEREMY I typed 192.168 ND IT BROUGHT UP THE ACTIONTEC home page

So 192.168.0.1 took me to the Actiontec home page

I think I am stuck. If I can't get on line with the linux side of the latitude could changing something from the windows side do anything? The win 7 is connected.

Are all the appropriate lights lit?
Is it possible to display any useful info about connected ethernet etc?

I am going to try to do this
Reset the rfkill status in the BIOS / UEFI
1.3.2. You can try the following procedure, which can reset the rfkill status on some laptops, thus removing the wireless "hard block":

- power off the laptop;
- remove the power cord and the battery;
- press and hold the power button for 30 seconds;
- put the battery back in place;
- connect the power cord;
- boot your Linux Mint or Ubuntu again.

result
It freaked out the dell laptop and it wanted to do a bunch of tests but when I said no it booted normally but no fix

All the lights are lit on modem, There are four ports and I tried changing the ethernet wire and the light moved with the change

Final stab - if you only plug the laptop in does it make any difference?
Otherwise I give up.

I looked in device manager on connected windows vista studio I am typing
Broadcom Netlink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN minicard
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #


On the problem LM cinnamon
I found the IPv4 Setting is disabled
the TPv4 Settings (DHCP) is set to automatic
the VLAN under MTU: is set to automatic

Enable IPV4(DHCP) in LM.

Don't change any Windows settings.

oh snap I forgot how I found that information. I'll keep looking

What does /etc/network/interfaces say?

I put that in the terminal window and no such file or directory

192.168.0.1 would be an internal ip address and no, you do not need internet connectivity for that page to work, you only need network connectivity.
The fact that it still says command not found suggests dhcpcd was not installed.

I'm not sure what you mean by . As I said before, a "hard block" is due to a physical switch disabling your internet. For instance, on my laptop fn+f2 enables/disables this. Also, as I mentioned before, this should only affect wireless and not ethernet.

Since dhclient is not giving a "command not found" I'm guessing this is your default dhcp utility. Please try
to give some more info on why it is failing.

Also, you might try running
before running dhclient

TEP
I did as you suggested on two speparate commends First Command not found and on second the execute operation it said Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory found

[I] pressed fn and f2 at the same time and nothing happened and still not connected.

Sigh...
I am getting pretty tired.. I will take a break and work on enabling IPV4(DHCP) as Jeremy suggested but I have to find it again first.

I really appreciate your effort. You two have been awesome and I do know I can wipe out linux and reinstall if nothing else works.