<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, <<a href="mailto:donlumber@comcast.net">donlumber@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>> From: "Bob Kline" <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:03:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada<br>
>> Eastern<br>
>> Subject: [GRLUG] "network is unreachable"<br>
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>> I somehow managed to hose the<br>
>> Ethernet connect on a laptop running<br>
>> Ubuntu 9.10. The bottom line is that<br>
>> when I try to ping an outside URL I get<br>
>> "network is unreachable." I've done<br>
>> some searching on the Internet for<br>
>> this, but so far nothing clicks.<br>
>> Some relevant things:<br>
>> * ifconfig shows that eth0, lo, and wan0<br>
>> are gone, so I set them all to "up."<br>
>> * /etc/resolv.conf looks OK.<br>
>> * I can ping 127.0.0.1, but nothing outside.<br>
>> * "/sbin/dhclient wlan0" was not running,<br>
>> so I started it.<br>
>> * I've done other A-B comparisons with<br>
>> a machine also running Ubuntu 9.10,<br>
>> and has a working eth0 port, but so far<br>
>> nothing has shown me the key thing<br>
>> that is missing.<br>
>> One suggestion on the Internet was to<br>
>> use dhcpcd, but I don't have it installed,<br>
>> and can't do it now. The machine does<br>
>> not have a CDROM unit, and of course I<br>
>> don't have Internet access.....<br>
>> Does this much suggest anything to try<br>
>> to anyone? I've power cycled, but some<br>
>> software might be missing, and when<br>
>> I come back up I have to run ifconfig again<br>
>> to set things up.<br>
>> -- Bob<br>
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>> Have you tried removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?<br>
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> I tried it, and a new file was generated.<br>
> But I still get "Network is unreachable"<br>
> when I try to ping anything other than<br>
> 127.0.0.1<br>
> -- Bob<br>
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</div></div>As root, what's the output of "ifconfig" and "route"?<br>
<font color="#888888">-- <br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ifconfig: lo - loopback - is the only thing that appears.</div><div><br></div><div>route: the column headings show, but there are</div><div>no contents.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Both on bootup.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>