Hey guys, I'm sure that this question has already been answered. If so, could someone direct me to the answer. The problem is that, steam.exe cannot access the Internet. My Internet service is fine, and I have not had any problems with steam accessing the Internet in the past. The problem only started a few days ago, and I am not sure what the cause is. I have tried basically everything. I visited Steams troubleshooting site, i manually bypassed the router to the modem and the problem persisted, so the problem isn't the router. I hard reset both the router and modem. I deleted the clientregistry.blob. I uninstalled wine and steam with apt-get remove --purge wine, and deleted the .wine folder in /home/ to remove settings and then added the wine repository and downloaded wine1.3 and reinstalled steam using sh winetricks steam. The problem persists, only now I can't even finish installation b/c it can't contact the servers. I get an error message "Steam.exe (main exception): To run Steam, you must first connect to the Internet." WHAT DO? Computer specs below. Specs: OS: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Linux) Processor: Intel i7 860 @ 2.80GHz Ram: 8GB ddr3 ram Graphicks: Nvidia 240 Wine: clean install 1.3.1 Steam: winetricks clean install also tried manual install with .msi Terminal view Code: kronos at kronos-desktop:~$ sh $ winetricks steam Executing wine msiexec /i /home/kronos/.winetrickscache/SteamInstall.msi fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"kronos" (nil) 0x32f150 (nil) 0x32f154 0x32f148 - stub fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"kronos" 0x137438 0x32f150 0x137980 0x32f154 0x32f148 - stub fixme:msi:ControlEvent_SpawnWaitDialog Doing Nothing fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut fixme:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim (0x7edecc8c L"fusion.dll", (nil), (nil), 0x32f948): semi-stub fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x33fcc8 (nil) 0x33fcec fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\" 1 4 (nil) (nil) (nil) (nil) fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x33fcc8 (nil) 0x33fcec fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Valve\\Steam" 4 4 (nil) (nil) (nil) (nil) fixme:hnetcfg:fw_app_put_ProcessImageFileName 0x12e890, L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\\\Steam.exe" fixme:hnetcfg:fw_app_put_Name 0x12e890, L"Steam" fixme:hnetcfg:fw_apps_Add 0x12e848, 0x12e890 Steam Client Service install completed.------------------------------------------------------ Once Steam is running, disable player notifications and in-game chat in Settings, or games will crash on launch; see wine bug 22053 ------------------------------------------------------ Install of steam done winetricks done. At this point I get the error message above Terminal view continued Code: $ exit kronos at kronos-desktop:~$ sudo su [sudo] password for kronos: root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos# cd "/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c" root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c# dir Program\ Files users windows root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c# cd Program\ Files root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c/Program Files# cd Steam root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam# root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam# wine Steam.exe fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33cfdc fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x199424 (nil) fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xa62e8d8, overlapped 0xa62e8e0): stub fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x1da244c (nil) wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated. root at kronos-desktop:/home/kronos/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam# wine Steam.exe [/code]