no internet

[nanotube]

well, if you say your network seems to be working, let's see if we can
narrow this down to a firefox problem. 

open up a terminal, and enter the following command:


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    telnet www.cnn.com 80
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if you are connected properly, you should get a prompt that looks like



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    Connected to www.cnn.com.

  Escape character is '^]'.
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now, for good measure, you can try typing in


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    GET /
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and see if you get the website.

if that all works, then the problem is definitely with firefox, not
with the underlying network connectivity, and we can go from there.


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nanotube