I knew that problems like this may arise. If you are interested I have a quite crazy solution: Edit the wallch executable with a hex editor.
I tried it but it is a bit tricky so you have to be careful and follow exactly the steps: You said that your company has blocked your outbound pings, but not the inbound (for example, you are able to ping localhost or 127.0.0.1, right?) I will write down what it worked for me. The 1st thing to check is whether you are able to ping 127.0.0.01 (yes *exactly* this address) with the command: ping -c 1 -w 2 127.0.0.01 If ping exits successfully read on, if not, then find a ten-letter ip adress or server that you can successfully ping and then read on, but where I say 127.0.0.01 replace it with the server/ip you can successfully ping: 1) Download Bless hex editor: sudo apt-get install bless 2) Copy wallch executable to your Desktop: cp /usr/bin/wallch ~/Desktop/ 3) Open Bless 4) Go to Edit->Preferences, and, under 'General', where it says 'Temporary Directory:' write in (do not select to open the dialog to select the /tmp direcotry, just write, type in:) /tmp and click on 'Close' 5) Open the wallch executable which is at your desktop (Ctrl+O and select it) 6) Press Ctrl+F, and on the right of the search bar, where it says 'as Hexadecimal', make it say 'as Text'. Type in the search field google.com and hit [Enter] 7) Only one occurrence will be found, write out google.com (VERY carefully) and replace it with the ip you can ping, like 127.0.0.01 8) After you are done, click on File->Save as and choose to save it at the desktop as wallch1 9) Right click on wallch1->Properties->Permissions->Allow executing file as program 10) That's it! Run wallch1, and, if the internet functions work nice then replace /usr/bin/wallch with this wallch1 and you are done! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1031654 Title: Unable to connect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wallch/+bug/1031654/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
