Some default installations can only connect to google.

For some strange reason Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop can only connect to google.

Setup:
-Ubuntu 7.04 on a laptop.
-Apple airport extreme (has been working with some truble with 6.10)
-Netcomm v300 switch / router
-D-Link DSL-502 modem.

What i have tried (and didn't work obviously :-) ):
-Good old ipv6 disable (in firefox and in modprobe.d/blacklist).
-Connect via wired ethernet on the switch.
-Connect using another machine (MacOSX) using the same setting (dhcp) (that has obviously worked otherwise i would not be posting here).
-Get the airport to act as dhcp server rather than the Netcomm.

Here is the output from:
---ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:6E:1E:30
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:366 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:368 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:337450 (329.5 KiB) TX bytes:86957 (84.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:6

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:35:81:34:BA
          inet addr:192.168.30.10 Bcast:192.168.30.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:623 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:170 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1746059 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:293584 (286.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2000 Memory:d0208000-d0208fff

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:6E:1E:30
          inet addr:169.254.4.177 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          Interrupt:6

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11040 (10.7 KiB) TX bytes:11040 (10.7 KiB)

---route -n:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.30.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth1 <<< ??????? does this have to do with dhcp??
0.0.0.0 192.168.30.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

---ping -c 5 www.google.com

PING www.l.google.com (72.14.253.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=387 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=387 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=357 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=357 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=360 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=6 ttl=240 time=364 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=7 ttl=240 time=367 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=8 ttl=240 time=358 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=9 ttl=240 time=354 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (72.14.253.104): icmp_seq=10 ttl=240 time=353 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 8999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 353.353/364.944/387.832/12.080 ms

ping www.yahoo.com, worked. Pinging hosts that allow it is not a problem (see below) (shame on me for not having tried abc on the other box:-) ).