solved it: Source code 1 killall networkstatustestservice I had already turned off the KDE Network Manager, so I don't know if I'll have to kill that in the future. That was frustrating! Solution found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=367541
Almost all of my KDE network apps lost network access about 12 days ago. Since I use Mozilla as my primary browser and Thunderbird for most of my email, and I have web access to the email I use most heavily, it fell under "inconvenient issues to address later." This morning, I could procrastinate no longer. The KDE apps known to be affected where: - Konqueror - KMail/Kontact - Kget - Akregator (within Kontact) Kopete seemed to work fine. None of the non-KDE network tools I use seemed to be affec...