I'll poke around a bit then. I deliberately kept it to an old version, thinking that would be safe. I still don't understand why pings won't work, or why the wine version of iexplore won't work... but I don't really care about that. I'm after the kindle reader.. it was just throwing me off. I though...

Well... I tried to change the subject... looks like it won't let me...

(changed subject in light of new information)

Update: iexplore.exe that ships with wine does not work -- no connection to the Internet or intranet. Pings do not work to local network or Internet. My Amazon Kindle software cannot get to the library, and constantly pops up a window telling me to configure the network settings (which are properly ...

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Even though networking does not work on the wine version of iexplore, and even though it does not work with ping, and even though it does not work on the kindle app, when I installed the Kobo reader, it *does* work... which doesn't make any sense to me...

Hi, I'm running KDE Neon, which is current as of today (build on ubuntu 20.x). I'm afraid that the i386 compatible wine layer doesn't seem to work so well out of the box on neon. I could not get any x386 applications to install, but I did find this, which uses the wine-hq repos instead: https://foru...