Firefox3 not finding PN home page

[#1]

Ok now for a non technical fix.
Boot up, login. Then go make a cup of tea, before opening Firefox.
Just a guess but the DHCP process is not always instant. On my eeePC for example I can boot up and go into Firefox, before the network has connected, wait about 20 seconds, refresh and we're off.

[#2]

Alternatively, use a static address 

[#3]

But that is like giving in.

[#4]

Some routers can take up to a minute to issue a lease and IP address to a LAN client.  Also, Ubuntu takes some time to connect to the network I have noticed.  It's not my distro, so I do not know when in the boot up process the dhcpclient fires up, but I would assume it will only do that after the firewall script has run.  What I'm saying here is, google or look at the Ubuntu forums on how to tweak the start up scripts.  Some of them can be run in parallel to accelerate the boot up.
HTH.

[#5]

Hi! Elders & Betters,
Why did we not think of this in the first place???  I must admit to expect that all this high tech (?) gear would leap into action when prodded and am much relieved to find that the cure was so simple. I must be getting too geeky in my old age. I must say that I was not seeing much computer activity on the little lamps below the screen while I was fretting.
Thanks to all concerned, it is a great comfort to know that you do take our problems to heart.
colintivy  🙂