[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Bob Kline]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 23:10 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:21 PM, <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >         On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Bob Kline
> >         <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >                 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Steve Romanow
> >                 <slestak989 at gmail.com>
> >                 wrote:
> >
> >                         On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:03 -0500, Bob Kline
> >                         wrote:
> >                         > I somehow managed to hose the
> >                         > Ethernet connect on a laptop running
> >                         > Ubuntu 9.10.  The bottom line is that
> >                         > when I try to ping an outside URL I get
> >                         > "network is unreachable."  I've done
> >                         > some searching on the Internet for
> >                         > this, but so far nothing clicks.
> >                         >
> >
> >                         >
> >                         Im not sure abt dhcpd fixing this, but iirc
> >                         synaptic has a "download
> >                         list" feature that you can feed into wget on
> >                         another machine (or boot to
> >                         a livecd withthis one).
> >
> >                         Are you using Networkmanager?  Shouldnt have a
> >                         lot of ifups and down
> >                         necessary.
> >
> >                 No.  I installed wicd, and that's when it all
> >                 started....
> >
> >
> >         Two solutions: Read the man pages and docs for wicd and
> >         manually configure it to handle your network connectivity, or
> >         uninstall it and reinstall NetworkManager.
> >
> >         --
> >         :wq
> >
> >
> > Can't do either.  wicd is not on the
> > system, and I have no way to reinstall
> > NetworkManager.
> >
> >
> >     -- Bob
> >
> >
> >         _______________________________________________
> >         grlug mailing list
> >         grlug at grlug.org
> >         http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > grlug mailing list
> > grlug at grlug.org
> > http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
>
> John's suggestion should work, you likely have the deb sitting in apt
> cache.
>
> if not here is a good looking link'
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-186175.html
>
>

Yes, this should do it eventually.

    -- Bob
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://shinobu.grlug.org/pipermail/grlug/attachments/20100210/0d6b7cfa/attachment-0001.htm