Re: Suddenly failed to connect

2010-10-20 Thread Ryan Macnish
Not a problem David, glad i could help :) Ryan Macnish On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:50 PM, David Bowskill david...@tpg.com.au wrote: Thanks very much Ryan, that has fixed it. My wife has Parkinson's so she must have accidentally hit this icon when shutting down - it is very close to the

Suddenly failed to connect

2010-10-19 Thread David Bowskill
Dear Ubuntu Users My wife and I share a four port router and we both are running 10.04 My Internet connection is fine but she is now receiving 'unable to connect to server' There is no hardware fault as the machine is dual boot and MSwindows connects OK I have checked /etc/resolv.conf and that is

Re: Suddenly failed to connect

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Macnish
Hi David, Looking at the ifconfig output there, it appears your wife isn't getting an IP address assigned to her computer, first i would check her connection settings, to do this head to the upper right corner of the desktop and you will see all those icons in the panel, hover your mouse over

Re: Suddenly failed to connect

2010-10-19 Thread David Bowskill
Thanks very much Ryan, that has fixed it. My wife has Parkinson's so she must have accidentally hit this icon when shutting down - it is very close to the shut-down etc icon. Funny enough this particular icon is not present on my machine on the toolbar top right hand side. The same connection