<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:45 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 11:38 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> 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>
>> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, <<a href="mailto:donlumber@comcast.net">donlumber@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> ----- 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>
>> >><br>
>> >> 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>
>> >><br>
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>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Have you tried removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > 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>
>><br>
>> As root, what's the output of "ifconfig" and "route"?<br>
>> --<br>
><br>
> ifconfig: lo - loopback - is the only thing that appears.<br>
> route: the column headings show, but there are<br>
> no contents.<br>
> Both on bootup.<br>
> -- Bob<br>
<br>
</div></div>ls /sys/class/net/<br>
<font color="#888888"><br><br></font></blockquote><div>eth0 lo wlan0</div><div><br></div><div>and those each point to something in /devices.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>