Windows 7 - Problem with dsl connection

I went to my brothers and he has the same laptop as mine , an Acer Aspire one. He has a DSL cable but when I plug it into my laptop it wont work. I couldn't find anything on the operating system, in networking that would tell me how to configure it to work. Any advice would be appreciated.

Open a terminal window by hitting ALT+F2 and then selecting the 'run in terminal' checkbox.


rm -rf ~/.gconf/system/networking


and restart

Bugsy, I think that's a Linux command and does not apply to Windows.

oops sorry it is

jamtso, what does ipconfig /all show when you are connected to your brothers DSL?

Click on Start then Run and paste the following into the Run box, exactly as show, including double quotes:

cmd /c "ipconfig /all > postme.txt & ping yahoo.com >> postme.txt & notepad postme.txt & del postme.txt"

and press ENTER.

A file will open in Notepad. Please copy and paste the contents here. Close the Notepad window and the file will be deleted and the Command Prompt window will also close.

Take a look at this Windows 7 Cannot Connect to Internet

this is for WINDOWS 7

My brother lives in Vancouver and I live south of Washington St. So I cant plug the line in now. But I will try "windows cannot connect to the internet" Thanks for all your help everyone.