[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Bob Kline]

I do.  My earlier comments were misleading.
I can attach a hard drive via USB and import
any necessary files.

    -- Bob


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Rob Steenwyk <rsteenwyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> You don't have access to another computer and a USB drive?
>
> Sent from my phone, please excuse the brevity.
>
> On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 23:10 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> > John's suggestion should work, you likely have the deb sitting in apt
> > cache.
> >
> > if not here is a good looking link'
> >
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-186175.html
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