Hi all, first post, have been reading quite a bit.

I recently ended up reinstalling 11.10 after a mid december update managed to cause libgtk 3.0 issues that i could never manage to fix. I had used wifi, lan, and a tethered android phone (usinf droidtethersv) successfully before, but after installing the tethering script this time around (which connected via wifi to download a couple additional things), I am no longer able to connect using wifi or lan. I installed ubuntu using a usb drive.

Looking up a website either times out or simply does not work, even if it appears that router connection is successful.

computer is a vaio vgn-fe21h laptop


thx for any help which might get me back on track.