very helpful and easy to understand advice, thank you, i will save this 
for when the 'gnomes' go on strike again..

On 08/30/2011 03:28 PM, Stephen wrote:
> There is one bit of infoirmation that is from the cli that would help
> a great deal
>
> sudo ifconfig
>
> that will tell us a fair amount about hat you have where
>
> and then maybe a ping to google.com and a ping to 8.8.8.8 (googles DNS server)
>
> if the 2 pings fail it measn you have no network at all. if you can
> ping the numbers it means you have having DNS/Name resolution issues
> and if you can ping both something else is going on.
>

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