Internet woes

[Robert N. Eaton]

I've been having trouble with email and accessing the net for some time 
now. Yesterday, my install of Fedora 7 (which didn't connect to the net) 
choked and refused to boot. I tried rescue disk, etc., but I couldn't 
revive it.

I re-installed Fedora 7 for the fourth time, using the _customize now_ 
option, so that I could use KDE (which I prefer to Gnome.) I tried 
Firefox and wonder of wonders, it connected to Google and all kinds of 
web sites.  I installed Thunderbird, and it cheerfully connected to 
aol.com and fetched my mail, just as it should. Finally! Linux is 
working just as I remembered it did.

I shut down and rebooted to see if I could get to WinXP, which booted 
correctly, with web and email access. I rebooted to Fedora 7 and all was 
well.  I did some housekeeping to get Fedora configured to my liking. I 
sent myself some test messages. They went through without a hitch.  Then 
I shut the computer down and returned to it some hours later.

I booted up and attempted to get my mail. No Thunderbird connection to 
aol.com, and few Firefox connections to the web. WinXP works fine, so it 
doesn't appear to be the DSL modem. I remember that one kind responder 
suggested that I test the memory. I downloaded Knoppix, but I couldn't 
convince WinXP to burn a proper .iso image.

I'll buy a new memory stick and see if that makes a difference.

Otherwise I'm frustrateder and baffleder than I was before, if that were 
possible ;-).

Bob Eaton