packofsunshine

Apart from gg1706's suggestions, your wireless and/or networking simply might have been disabled. Try right clicking the network icon which is in the top panel by default, and enable if not ticked.

Typing commands on linux is like running programs. For example: ls is input the same way as gedit. You can run your scripts files by making it executible with chmod +x, which then behaves like a command if I correctly understand what you're asking.

I'm not sure if you have already tried this, but just to make sure: [url]http://subclipse.tigris.org/[/url]