[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Bob Kline]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:30 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:21:41PM -0500, mikemol at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline 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.
>
> Since you don't have net access on that machine, check
> /var/cache/apt/archives for the NetworkManager .deb.  It should be there
> unless you cleaned it out (a great reason to not clean out the cache
> unless you really need the space).  Wicd obviates other network
> connection managers (and vice versa).  Reinstalling NetworkManager
> should remove Wicd.
> --
> john-thomas
>

OK, the archives is there, but not NetworkManager.
But wicd is, so I'll try to install that and see what I
can do from there.

   -- Bob
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