On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 08:42 +0800, dsc21b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > the internet connection is working fine - firefox and other computers > access the internet ok, on all levels. > firefox is working fine, web mail is all i can use The first thing I'd do is compare /etc/resolv.conf between the different computers. Perhaps the non-working one doesn't have your nameservers in it, and firefox is either continuing to work with what it already knows about, or goes through a proxy (proxies can resolve addresses for browsers). -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.