Clean install - No internet access
Hello.
Background, running a dual boot of winxp and linux on my ASUS V6J laptop. I started with UBuntu 5.10, and the wireless and wired network connections did not work. I clean installed Dapper Flight 7 cd, and having the same issues. Maybe I am missing something, but I was assuming that after a clean install, AT LEAST my wired lan connection would work, but it doesnt. I go into firefox and it cant find any pages. From reports that I've heard, setting up the wireless card is a Pain in the &$(, so I will tackle that later, right now I just want to get on the net from within linux. So any help would be appreciated. I've read through multiple forms, but a lot of the stuff goes back and forth and isn't really pin pointed on a solution. My specs are: ASUS V6J laptop Wireless: Built-In Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 A/B/G miniPCI Network card for lan: Gigabit LAN http://proportable.com/detail.aspx?ID=174 for more details on the laptop setup. What do I need to do after a fresh install of Ubuntu (Flight 7) to at least get the network card working, on the internet with my lan connection? |
Would you please post the results of the following command?
'/sbin/ifconfig' without the quotes. That will tell us if you have an ip address. It would help a lot if you would tell us more. Are you running DHCP? Can you see a driver loaded for your wired ethernet card? To find out, do a '/sbin/lsmod' again, no quotes. That will list your loaded modules. Look for the driver that should be loaded for your card or chip set. From the symptoms posted, you may not have DNS configured. You can look at the file /etc/resolv.conf. It will list the DNS servers, and that should be the same as your ISP tells you to use. If the name servers are not there, edit the file as root, and add a line for each name server. example.... nameserver=xxx.yyy.zzz.123 |
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Link encap: Local Loopback inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host and then some other misc stuff Not sure what the driver should be for the nic, so I am not sure what to look for with the /sbin/lsmod I assign a static IP for the computers on my home network. It is usually 192.168.1.xxx The prefered DNS server I assign also based on my cable internet provider, which is 65.24.7.3 (read that out of my setup in windows xp). |
Realtek NIC RTL8168/8111 is my network card FYI
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It would appear you do not have a DHCP server, since there is no IP address in the output of /sbin/ifconfig. The address 127.0.0.1 is your loopback address. Here is a sample form my machince of what it will look like when configured.
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:26:B3:78 On Ubuntu, there is a graphical tool to set this up. Go to System-->Administration-->Networking and the Networking will bring up a gui to configure your ethernet card. This should work O.K. if the installation detected your Realtek ethernet card. That is a fairly common card, so my guess is it did detect it. Go in there and see if you can configure the IP address, gateway, DNS etc. and let us know if that gets it going. If not, we'll have to figure out what driver should be loaded for that card. |
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