Earthlink DSL failing to see Ubuntu

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:46:06 -0600
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:45:26 +0100
> Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > A quick dns lookup here suggest the name servers for earthlink.net
> > are 207.69.188.197 and 207.69.188.196, but I'm guessing your ISPs
> > domain!
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tony.
> 
> My ISP is earthlink.net, yes, but how do I tell my system what those
> DNS servers are?  This is drivinig me quite around the bend.
> 
> Cybe

I forgot to add that I have had no satisfgaction running the GNOME
network administration package from within GNOME.  I get the busy cursor
for a moment, then it fails.  Do you happen to know the package name so
I may run it from a terminal?

Cybe R. Wizard
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