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It's working now, see the post above. It turned out to be some quirk in the router due to the router going down in a power outage. When the router came back up it allowed Windows to connect...

That threw me too. I would think at that level of connectivity it would all be pretty much the same whether Windows or Linux but I had 3 other machines on the network, all running Windows, with no...

It's working! I found out this morning from my wife that we had some brief power outages between the time it last worked and when it stopped working. Apparently the router was down for a short period...

The .102 address came from another machine on my network. I was trying the commands you asked for on my linux laptop (the .101 machine) but then having to copy/paste the results to the .102 machine...

I never installed any firewall programs so that shouldn't be an issue. The output from "sudo iptables -n -L" is as follows:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source ...

Regarding the ping.symantec.com. I misread your instructions and that is why you're confused. Instead of typing " ping ping.symantec.com" I typed "ping.symantec.com". I apologize for the confusion....

Everything returned results. Doing a nslookup on www.microsoft.com returned


Doing an nslookup on www.microsoft.com 4.2.2.2 returned


The results of nslookup ping.symantec.com 24.89.0.22 were...

Thanks for answering!
Monicker
The output of my ping to 4.2.2.2 is as follows


pinging symantec.com did NOT work.
the output of netstat -rn is as follows:

No one has any ideas? I have torn my hair out on this. I really like Ubuntu but it's unfortunately useless to me if the wireless doesn't connect to the internet.:(

I hope someone can help me with this. I am new to Ubuntu and Linux and I'm trying to learn.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop which is a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04. The wireless...