No network on 12.04 install

[Basil Chupin]

On 30/06/12 21:59, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> That particular USB port has 'gone' as well?
>>
>> I even re-installed the whole OS system because I did not believe that the
>> onboard LAN could have gone belly up after only 2 months of use. But....as
>> they say in the movies, "S*** happens" :-( .
>>
>> Does doing 'sudo lshw' or 'hwinfo' provide any clues? Or an entry in
>> /var/log message file?
>>
>>
> The system recognises and I can select wifi networks, but none of them connect.
>
> The problem is that the system is not getting an IP address. It
> appears that DHCP was not configured for either eth0 nor the WAN. I'm
> fighting with it now to get DHCP working.

Which is exactly what I went through and why I re-installed the system 
thinking that the network configuration was somehow messed up :-( .

In my case, I even checked that the little contact "fingers" in the RJ45 
connectors were correctly in place and didn't somehow get out of their 
position (which actually happened many years ago on one of the RJ11 
connectors).

The only suggestions I can now offer is to get a network card (borrow or 
buy) and install that.

Frustrating I know when you think that there is no logical reason for 
something like what you are experiencing should suddenly happen.

BC

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