Recent content by Polliwog

Fix of DNS is persistent. Did discover that I had to run it again on my wife's profile on the machine, as the fix was apparently limited to my profile and account. Again I could ping an ip address but a DNS name resolution was not happening. Fix was just as effective for her as it was for me...

Thanks, z7vl7abxc. dns-fix did indeed fix the problem and I am now back on line. I first tried a ping to 8.8.8.8; that worked, so I ran the fix and sure enough, good things come from the forum! I'm beginning to like it here!!! Now to mark the thread resolved. fair winds and following seas...

Does the move to Linux Networking mean I'm not a newbie any more? I sure still feel like one. My apologies for the information deficit: Yes, I'm talking WiFi. And Yes, I've rebooted the router (a couple of times along the way). Sorry for leaving the info gap. So now, I've run "inxi...

Still a newbie, still just getting started. And, as the title says, all was going well. Mint Cinnamon installed, updated, various packages installed (or found and then installed), running on my new 1 Gb fiber connection with vpn keeping things pretty private. UNTIL: Fired up this morning...

Thanks, I've got it. Edit done. Good result from good advice. Fireworks to celebrate.

Finally got a chunk of time yesterday evening and went ahead with installing Mint; lengthy, but simple. When I got to printers, I learned that the drivers I downloaded, thanks to Mike Walsh, were already in place. A bit of an adaptation of the generic driver, it seems, which is what makes...

Preparing to install Linux Mint; I have media on a thumb drive ready to install. However, I stopped when I found Epson does not support Linux for my ET 2760 ink jet. Didn't expect that at all. I thought that Linux support had grown to be substantially universal. I've got several...