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Hi all, I installed Virtual Box and tried to get ubuntu to work but it kept giving me the "This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU" error - which is odd because I have an i5-3570k. Anyways, after looking around for a while someone said I had to go into by BIOS and enable Intel Virtualization Technology. I restarted my comp and searched around in my BIOS but found no such option. When I booted back into windows I noticed I couldn't connect to the internet, also when my internet window popped up, instead of just having the usual "network adapter - local connection 4" there was now a new adapter/network listed under that "Virtual box host network only" or something of that nature. I messed around w/ disabling and re-enabling the adapter, I restarted my PC, I disabled the virtual box network -- nothing worked. Finally I gave up and uninstalled virtual box. To my horror the internet still did not work. I unplugged and replugged the wall cable in but it didn't even detect a connection. My motherboard happens to have two LAN ports and the Intel one is still working (even though it still says "Network 4 - no internet access") but the Broadcom adapter doesn't work at all anymore. Help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

details:
Running Windows 7 64bit
On a school network
hardwire connection

Let me know if more information is needed.

Is the Virtual box host network only still present even after uninstalling Virtualbox?

Stupid mistake. One of my network adapters had been disabled somehow (in my defense there are about 6 of them ). I swear I had combed through that multiple times though

Sorry about that. I reinstalled VB and everything seems to be working (except Ubuntu).

Thank you for the reply though, I really appreciate it

Same thing is happening again. Everything was working fine, I left for class, came back -- no internet. I tried enabling disabling all adapters, I tried enabling some while disabling others, I tried brigding networks etc. The only way I got it to work was by disabling all networks except for my Intel adapter and unchecking the box that allows the Intel adapter to use "VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver"

Just got my internet back, it hasn't been working all day, even with the same settings that seemed to work last time. Like I said, it's working at the moment but I know it will stop working soon. I changed nothing, I woke my computer up from sleep and now it's working. Granted my network icon still has a yellow triangle and notifies me that I have "No internet access" and below that I have an "Unidentified Network" similarly with "No internet access".
Also I should note that I don't have any guest machines set up at the moment. I have an empty one that I was going to install Ubuntu on but I haven't touched it.
Help would be much appreciated.

Are you sure your problem was local? It sounds like a dead DNS to me - a problem at your providers end.

It's definitely being caused by virtualbox. Never had any problems with the internet until I installed VB, then it stopped working. I uninstalled VB and the internet went back to working. I reinstalled it, and my internet is having problems again.

Are there certain setting that I should be checking?

I'm on a university network if that helps at all - not sure how much that changes things.

Open a command prompt (also known as cmd) and post back the result of this command when your internet is not working as you describe it :