[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[mikemol at gmail.com]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 22:03 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>> > I somehow managed to hose the
>> > Ethernet connect on a laptop running
>> > Ubuntu 9.10.  The bottom line is that
>> > when I try to ping an outside URL I get
>> > "network is unreachable."  I've done
>> > some searching on the Internet for
>> > this, but so far nothing clicks.
>> >
>>
>> >
>> Im not sure abt dhcpd fixing this, but iirc synaptic has a "download
>> list" feature that you can feed into wget on another machine (or boot to
>> a livecd withthis one).
>>
>> Are you using Networkmanager?  Shouldnt have a lot of ifups and down
>> necessary.
>>
> No.  I installed wicd, and that's when it all
> started....

Two solutions: Read the man pages and docs for wicd and manually configure it to handle your network connectivity, or uninstall it and reinstall NetworkManager.

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