Ibuntu 8.1 Can not figure out how to connect to high speed internet
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Ibuntu 8.1 Can not figure out how to connect to high speed internet
We just switched from Xp to Ibuntu. We have been through so many threads on how to hook the internet up to it, but have failed. I can not figure it out for the life of me. We use a wired high speed internet called Road Runner. The interent worked fine on XP, but now we can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be great.
Yeah this information is not enough to help you out. Could you tell how did you connect to net in Xp? Did yo dial for it? Or just connect the cable? Is it wired or wireless? Any information regarding ip addresses you configured in Xp.
I mentioned before it's wired connect with high speed. Ethernet is what we use. We use a router also, not sure if that matters. We can connect from xp no problem.. but ibuntu has been a hassle for us. I'm not sure what else to do but give up. There doesn't seem to be an option we can use for our internet.
You have a wired connection to a switch port on the Router (the Road Runner is connected to the Router's WAN port) ?
If so, is the Windows PC also connected to the switch ports ?
I mentioned before it's wired connect with high speed. Ethernet is what we use. We use a router also, not sure if that matters. We can connect from xp no problem.. but ibuntu has been a hassle for us. I'm not sure what else to do but give up. There doesn't seem to be an option we can use for our internet.
Ok. So can you ping your router from Ubuntu? If not then boot into windows, go to run type cmd. Then on the prompt type ipconfig and then see what ip address is configured.
Configure your Ubuntu to have similar ip address and see if there is internet in Ubuntu.
I use Ubuntu as well and I never had issues connecting to internet with adsl modem / router.
We do not have windows on the computer any more. We used the reformat option when we loaded Ibuntu 8.1 and Linux. I'm not sure how to ping the router?
We tried to reinstall the driver for the ehternet card for Linux thinking that was the problem, but it didn't solve anything. Is it possible his computer is not compatible with this program?
You have got two network cards as per the output you have posted but none of them have any ip address. Either enable dhcp server in your router or provide a valid ip address to the network card that is connected to the router.
By default the router should have 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 as the ip address. And if you have not changed the settings for the router one of these should be your router's address as well. You can assign some ip address in the range of one of the network and you should be ok.
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To access the router config, type: '192.168.0.1' in a web browser. If that doesn't work, try '192.168.1.1'. Most home networking routers use one of these addresses. For some reason your router is not giving the linux machine an IP address. That is one of the things a router such as yours is supposed to do.
The router gets it's IP from Road Runner. You can also check this in the router config web interface program.
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Ibuntu 8.1 Can not figure out how to connect to high speed internet
As mentioned before
