Hi Russell,

I think we already sorted this out via gmail email. 

Apologies for delayed replies, all volunteer list admins went on a holiday together. ;)

Cheers,

Kylie 

> Russell jarvis <colouredstatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear computer bank volunteer/employee,
> 
> I recently purchased a computer from the computer bank on the 25/1/07. I 
> am
> having a lot of trouble connecting it to the Internet (via a router), 
> and I
> wonder if some one might be able to give advice about network connection 
> in
> KDE. Any advice would be much appreciated.
> 
> I am using a GUI approach:
> I went into control centre and logged in as administrator.
> I put in the typical values for gateway and IP.
> Changed the proxy to direct Internet connection.
> 
> The problems I encounter:
> 
> Every time I try to enable the Ethernet connection it appears to be 
> enabled
> for one second, and then promptly resumes being disabled.
> 
> When I try to configure the Ethernet connection I get the error message:
> The application KDE control module crashed and caused the signal 11
> (SIGSEGV).
> When I click on backtrace it says no debugging symbols found.
> 
> pinging the IP of the router says something like:
> network not found.
> 
> Thanks
> Russell Jarvis

Kylie Davies
Coordinator
Computerbank Victoria Inc 
http://vic.computerbank.org.au