TO STEVEN VOLLOM: Internet connection

[Thomas Olsen]

Steven

I wrote to you off list but apparently you didn't read it.
Now I forward it to the list.
As countless other people has written: Start from the basics, don't worry 
about antivirus software, your router or anything else but to get tour 
computer on the Internet.
Please read this slowly several times and do NOT do anything before you 
understand the procedure(s):


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Subject: Internet connection
Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009
From: Thomas Olsen <tanghus at gmail.com>
To: Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>

Hi Steven

Please try to do either as I suggest:

If your /etc/network/interfaces looks anything else than this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0


Then rename it and create another one with that content. Reboot the computer 
WITH the ethernet cable connected to both the cable modem and the computer and 
I'll bet you're online. 
NetworkManager should take care of getting an IP-address via DHCP.


OR as Eberhard suggest: *add* this for eth0:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


This means that the file /etc/network/interfaces should look either like this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0


Or like this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


Try one setup at a time, reboot the computer for each setup and see if any of 
the suggestions work. Report back to the LIST kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
on success or failure.
Hope that you get online :-)

Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

  Thomas Olsen

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