I think I’ve solved my connection problem. In the last post I outlined how I needed to fire up Terminal and type in sudo dhclient. Well I finally got some mental space to think about it, and this was the solution in my case
Administration/Networking [password]
Under Network Settings choose Connections/
Wired Connections (in my case) /Properties
and choose [...]

At least I don’t have to do it every half an hour, which was the case before I got rid of IPv6, but I still have to use dhclient to log onto the internet every morning, which is a pain.
I think this is the relevant information:
mv: cannot move `/etc/resolv.conf.dhclient-new’ to `/etc/resolv.conf’: Operation not permitted
but [...]

Well, the sudo dhclient (see previous post) is a great rescue tool, but it’s far from perfect. So long as I keep using Firefox, it works, but if I leave it for a while, I need sudo dhclient again.
Needless to say this is far from satisfactory. The problem seems to be, as far [...]

A few weeks ago I had problems with my connection to the internet. My connection had been rock solid for a year and a half, but my first inclination was to blame my provider. I quickly discovered it was to do with Firefox. I found a solution, which was to delete some file, but [...]

This problem had me stumped, as I didn’t know how to call a text editor to view and edit source files, eg to trouble shoot html files. Firefox has View/Page Source in its menus, but you can’t edit the file. After downloading some extensions, which didn’t work because I didn’t know the path to a [...]