[GRLUG] "network is unreachable"

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, <donlumber at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com>
> >> To: grlug at grlug.org
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:03:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> >> Eastern
> >> Subject: [GRLUG] "network is unreachable"
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> Some relevant things:
> >> *  ifconfig shows that eth0, lo, and wan0
> >>    are gone, so I set them all to "up."
> >> * /etc/resolv.conf looks OK.
> >> * I can ping 127.0.0.1, but nothing outside.
> >> * "/sbin/dhclient wlan0" was not running,
> >>   so I started it.
> >> *  I've done other A-B comparisons with
> >>    a machine also running Ubuntu 9.10,
> >>   and has a working eth0 port, but so far
> >>   nothing has shown me the key thing
> >>   that is missing.
> >> One suggestion on the Internet was to
> >> use dhcpcd, but I don't have it installed,
> >> and can't do it now.  The machine does
> >> not have a CDROM unit, and of course I
> >> don't have Internet access.....
> >> Does this much suggest anything to try
> >> to anyone?  I've power cycled, but some
> >> software might be missing, and when
> >> I come back up I have to run ifconfig again
> >> to set things up.
> >>    -- Bob
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >> Have you tried removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?
> >
> >
> > I tried it, and a new file was generated.
> > But I still get "Network is unreachable"
> > when I try to ping anything other than
> > 127.0.0.1
> >    -- Bob
>
> As root, what's the output of "ifconfig" and "route"?
> --
>

ifconfig:  lo - loopback - is the only thing that appears.

route:  the column headings show, but there are
no contents.

Both on bootup.

   -- Bob
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