[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Rob Steenwyk]

You don't have access to another computer and a USB drive?

Sent from my phone, please excuse the brevity.

On 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
>>
>>
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>
> 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
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