[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Bob Kline]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:21 PM, <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> :wq
>
>
> Can't do either.  wicd is not on the
system, and I have no way to reinstall
NetworkManager.

    -- Bob


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