<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:30 PM, john-thomas richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:21:41PM -0500, <a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> >>On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:03 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> >>> I somehow managed to hose the Ethernet connect on a laptop running<br>
> >>> Ubuntu 9.10. The bottom line is that when I try to ping an<br>
> >>> outside URL I get "network is unreachable." I've done some<br>
> >>> searching on the Internet for this, but so far nothing clicks.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>Im not sure abt dhcpd fixing this, but iirc synaptic has a "download<br>
> >>list" feature that you can feed into wget on another machine (or<br>
> >>boot to a livecd withthis one).<br>
> >><br>
> >>Are you using Networkmanager? Shouldnt have a lot of ifups and down<br>
> >>necessary.<br>
> >><br>
> >No. I installed wicd, and that's when it all started....<br>
><br>
> Two solutions: Read the man pages and docs for wicd and manually<br>
> configure it to handle your network connectivity, or uninstall it and<br>
> reinstall NetworkManager.<br>
<br>
</div>Since you don't have net access on that machine, check<br>
/var/cache/apt/archives for the NetworkManager .deb. It should be there<br>
unless you cleaned it out (a great reason to not clean out the cache<br>
unless you really need the space). Wicd obviates other network<br>
connection managers (and vice versa). Reinstalling NetworkManager<br>
should remove Wicd.<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
john-thomas <br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, the archives is there, but not NetworkManager.</div><div>But wicd is, so I'll try to install that and see what I</div><div>can do from there.</div><div><br>
</div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>