Hello,

I just got a new computer with Vista, but wanted to install Ubuntu as well. I did it a couple of times on different machines this past Spring so it's not something I was doing for the first time.

However, when everything was finished I had no connection to the internet, even though it works fine when I boot up to Vista. I have a cable modem direct to the back of the box via cat45.

Any ideas? All help appreciated. Also, I can give you whatever info might help....just let me know since I don't know exactly what might be needed. Thanks

The first step is to check your type of hardware to see if it has a driver (extremely few ethernet devices have no Linux driver, but such devices do exist):

lspci|grep thernet
lspci|grep etwork

That should list any PCI devices with "Ethernet" or "Network" in their description; for example:

02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

The next step is to match the PCI Bus ID to get the VendorID:ProductID information:

lspci -n|grep "02:0e"

02:0e.0 0200: 14e4:169c (rev 03)

From all that information we can find out if a driver exists and help you set up the networking.

If the correct driver is already loaded, edit the /etc/network/interfaces file; the usual setup is something like:

auto eth0 (bring up 'eth0' if 'ifup -a' is invoked, which happens at startup)
iface eth0 inet dhcp (get an IP address and other network information via DHCP)

After editing 'interfaces' you can bring up the link (or attempt to):
ifup eth0

Pinniped -

Thanks for the info. I'll be back home and take these steps in a bit and get back to the forum with the results.

Thanks

okay i did the first few steps and this was the output:


okay what to do what to do?

I found a suggestion on the ubuntu forum archives that said to dl and install the driver from intel. I tried that, but no success. I posted what I did and what happened over here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915282