<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:02 AM, 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 11:54 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> 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>
>> ls /sys/class/net/<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> eth0 lo wlan0<br>
> and those each point to something in /devices.<br>
> -- Bob<br>
<br>
</div></div>Grab a flash drive. Get NetworkManager reinstalled.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/net/network-manager" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/net/network-manager</a><br>
<font color="#888888"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"> </font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sounds right. More later.</div><div><br></div><div>
-- Bob</div><div> </div></div>