No internet with 1 computer

Check if it's a DNS fail by pinging a known internet IP address.

i.e.

$ ping bbc.co.uk PING bbc.co.uk (151.101.192.81) 56(84) bytes of data.

$ ping 151.101.192.81 PING 151.101.192.81 (151.101.192.81) 56(84) bytes of data.

If you get pings from the direct IP and nothing otherwise it suggests a DNS failure.

My acid test is if you can ping 8.8.8.8. If you can, but can't ping a named site, it will be DNS.

Is the computer connected to the router by wifi or cable? If you look at "Network" in Mint's menu, what does it say, and is it any different from what it says with the other (working) computer?

The said computer can't ping a named site but can pin 8.8.8.8.

So if it is dns how do I fix that please

It was different, network set at manual, instead of automatic. That was me playing about earlier today, and forgot to change it back Doh!

Thanks

Well you can set your machines DNS servers to 8.8.8.8

Personally I'd be curious as to why it failed for one machine. Linux default networking should just pick up the DNS servers assigned by DHCP.

Yes. sometimes you can have a DNS server go down that is in your list of preferred servers,.

If you are on Ethernet right click on the Ethernet icon in the toolbar and bring up connection information. That will show you its IP settings.

If they look ok try restarting the windows by doing ctrl-alt-backspace. Or powerdown and start again

LOL! we have all been there...the time I phoned my ISP late in the evening with no internet and the guy took a look and said 'is your router actually plugged in?' And of course the RJ45 had fallen out...broken catch.

Pleased I was able to help.

That reminds me of an event many years ago, when I had a job supervising three separate groups of staff (effectively development, implementation and support) and one of the support staff was highly amused by the early morning problem that had been reported. In a nutshell: Caller: My computer won't start. Support: Has the power light on the front lit? Caller: No. Support: Is the mains socket it is plugged into turned on? Caller: Of course it is. I'm not {expletive} stupid. Support: Perhaps the cleaners caught the cable and dislodged the connection into the computer. Can you follow the lead and see if the connection into the computer is properly pushed in? QUITE A LONG PAUSE Caller, sheepishly: I followed the lead and it went to my kettle. I found the one that should have been plugged in and my computer has started up OK. Support: I am glad you are back up and running. Goodbye.

Mega LOL

PC leads will not plug into a kettle as kettle leads have a notch in it due to the fact the kettle lead has to be thermally suitable for the heat generated by the kettle

However, if it was a kettle lead plugged into the computer then that would work, but kettle leads tend to be far shorter than a computer mains lead.....

Don't spoil a good story with mere facts! John

I heard this story sometime in the past.....

"For several months, our nurses have been baffled to find a dead patient in the same bed every Friday morning," a spokeswoman for the Pelonomi Hospital (Free State, South Africa) told reporters. "There was no apparent cause for any of the deaths, and extensive checks on the air conditioning system, and a search for possible bacterial infection, failed to reveal any clues."

"However, further inquiries have now revealed the cause of these deaths. It seems that every Friday morning a cleaner would enter the ward, remove the plug that powered the patient's life support system, plug her floor polisher into the vacant socket, then go about her business. When she had finished her chores, she would plug the life support machine back in and leave, unaware that the patient was now dead. She could not, after all, hear the screams and eventual death rattle over the whirring of her polisher."

"We are sorry, and have sent a strong letter to the cleaner in question. Further, the Free State Health and Welfare Department is arranging for an electrician to fit an extra socket, so there should be no repetition of this incident. The enquiry is now closed."

Urban myth -

No, it wasn't the leads being reused in different equipment. The computer plug and lead went to the computer. The kettle plug and lead went to the kettle. Someone had taken the computer plug out of the socket (presumably staff working late while the computer was turned off) and had plugged the kettle into the socket instead, and had forgotten to plug the computer lead back in afterwards.

Faulty multiplexing. Replace the switch.

That is so 'African'

Mjnd you one place I worked the cleaner used to clean the computer systems including the system console of the PDP-11. And the break key. Which halted the whole machine.

I think we solved that one with a post-it note though.