<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Many thanks to all of you who tried to help me get my eeePC back on the internet (Skype works fine). I tried all of your suggestions and none fixed the problem. Yesterday I called asus and was very surprised to find they would provide telephone support, even though the netbook warrantee was up about 9 months ago. In fact they said they are there to help as long as I have the machine! (Are you listening Apple? This is what you used to do). Anyway, they said that I need to reset to factory settings (the netbook would only let me reset to December 14, 2010... not far enough!). I need a Support DVD (which came with the machine) and a usb optical drive so I can use it as a boot disk. So I guess I will make a trip to Frys sometime soon and see what I can find. Maybe even this afternoon. I was thinking of getting one with light-scripe anyway. Any recommendations? The asus guy recommended Lite-on. Thanks again for all of your efforts to help. I'll let you know if and when the problem is solved. Caryl P.S. In essence, I will be doing what we do with the XOs... reflashing! </body> </html>