<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 11:48 AM, Roger House <<a href="mailto:rhouse@sonic.net">rhouse@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yesterday while using my Ubuntu machine to work on a remote machine via<br>VPN (using vpnc), my keyboard locked up. The mouse cursor still worked,<br>but there seemed to be no way to get back to Ubuntu on my local machine.<br>
In desperation (and perhaps foolishly), I hit the reset button. Soon<br>enough Ubuntu was back up and running on my local machine, but I had no<br>Internet connection, and I have not had it since.<br><br>I have a home office network with a cable modem, router, and three<br>
computers, the Ubuntu machine, my wife's Windows machine, and another<br>Windows machine that I almost never use. I quickly verified that both<br>Windows machines have Internet access. So the problem lies with the<br>
Ubuntu machine or its connection to the router. The latter does not<br>seem to be a problem since I can access the router from the Ubuntu<br>machine with Firefox. In fact I see a DHCP Clients Table which contains<br>info on my two Windows machines, but not on the Ubuntu machine.<br>
<br>I'm guessing that by hitting the reset button things were left in some<br>unpleasant state on the Ubuntu machine which prevents it from connecting<br>to the Internet.<br><br>Any input on what to do will be greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>Roger House<br></blockquote></div><br>I ran into a problem with multiple NICs after a complete install of Fedora 8. In my case I had a NIC connecting to a wireless router and another connecting to another router that connects to the cable modem. Since the wireless router daisy-chained through the regular router to get to the Internet I had multiple possible routes to the Internet and it appears to have confused my computer, even though everything looked fine. In my case it healed itself in about a day.<br>
<br>So what I'm asking, is there any way your computer could be confused about the correct path to the Internet?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.