On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Gar Filth wrote:

>OK, i,m using exe/gnu wheezy version ( which rocks harder than a very hard
>thing. ). nothing can access the web. synaptic, kmail, konqueror, firefox
>nothing. ping don't work nothing.
>network configured with ceni. i've not changed the settings. my connection
>is through my android phone tethered.
>
>now here is where it gets interesting
>, tor browser works without any problem whatsoever. so i thought it might
>be my isp ( 3 in the uk ). so i booted into my xubuntu partition with kde 4
>and networking works no problem.

Not knowing tor that well, my guess would be it's a DNS lookup problem.
tor may well be using hard-coded i.p. addresses.
Just thinkin' out loud here...
Jonesy