More information for Andrew Perrin. Using minicom, I was able to stay connected. ipchains -a invalid option route -n still headings, but no data nslookup www.debian.org nslookup command not found ping -c 198.186.203.20 ping:send to:Network is unreachable ping:wrote 198.186.203.20 (4 chars, ret=1) same thing repeated four more times 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss traceroute 198.186.203.20 traceroute:command not found