<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donlumber@comcast.net">donlumber@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Bob Kline" <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" target="_blank">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:03:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: [GRLUG] "network is unreachable"<br><br>I somehow managed to hose the<div>
Ethernet connect on a laptop running</div><div>Ubuntu 9.10. The bottom line is that</div><div>when I try to ping an outside URL I get</div><div>"network is unreachable." I've done </div>
<div>some searching on the Internet for </div><div>this, but so far nothing clicks.</div><div><br></div><div>Some relevant things:</div><div><br></div><div>* ifconfig shows that eth0, lo, and wan0</div><div> are gone, so I set them all to "up."</div>
<div><br></div><div>* /etc/resolv.conf looks OK.</div><div><br></div><div>* I can ping 127.0.0.1, but nothing outside.</div><div><br></div><div>* "/sbin/dhclient wlan0" was not running,</div><div> so I started it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* I've done other A-B comparisons with</div><div> a machine also running Ubuntu 9.10,</div><div> and has a working eth0 port, but so far</div><div> nothing has shown me the key thing</div><div>
that is missing.</div><div><br></div><div>One suggestion on the Internet was to </div><div>use dhcpcd, but I don't have it installed,</div><div>and can't do it now. The machine does</div><div>not have a CDROM unit, and of course I</div>
<div>don't have Internet access.....</div><div><br></div><div>Does this much suggest anything to try</div><div>to anyone? I've power cycled, but some</div><div>software might be missing, and when</div><div>I come back up I have to run ifconfig again</div>
<div>to set things up.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
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</span></strong></div></div></blockquote></div> <div>I tried it, and a new file was generated.</div><div><br></div><div>But I still get "Network is unreachable"</div><div>when I try to ping anything other than</div>
<div>127.0.0.1</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>