>Have you checked that you have a correct 'homepage' entry in Netscape, I >found that problem after one of my installs. > It is set to "Browser starts with Blank page," and the home page the Home page button is set to is http://home.netscape.com I don't see how an error here could affect the ping thing though. >Also check if you have proxys enabled, could be in there too. > There are no proxys enabled as far as I can tell. If there were, would I see that in the "DrakConf" utility, or should look somewhere else? I know that I have never knowingly enabled any proxys. DRX