This could be one of those strange DNS interoperability problems that occasionally happens. Try my howto at http://www.chrislees.info/ubuntu/opendns.shtml and see if it works. I'm assuming that Ubuntu brings up a notification that it has connected to your Ethernet, but no sites in Firefox work?
Hi, I've recently made the switch to Ubuntu 10.10 from windows xp, as my copy of windows was corrupted by viruses. In XP, I never had problems with my internet connection. I have an HP desktop computer, 80 gb hd, 4 gb ram. I run an ethernet cablef from my router receiving broadband dsl. However, no matter what I try, (everything posted on these forums) nothing seems to work to get connected to the internet. An error message pops up in Firefox saying "cannot find the server at (site)."
Thanks for your help!

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