ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 65, Issue 11

[Anthony]

Hi David,

If the computer is a laptop, sometimes there is a small switch on the
side you have to flick on for the wireless to power up,

Otherwise it might be a key combo you have to hit like Fn + F4 or
something to power up the wireless (look for the wireless symbol on the
"F" keys at the top)
 
If it is the wired connection that's not working goto terminal and type
in "lspci | grep Ethernet" and look for the model number of the network card

This will correlate to a module that has to be manually loaded that
Ubuntu forgot to load for your network card..

For example it might be you need rt8139.ko for your model you'd then
type into terminal "modprobe rt8139" and if this worked and is the
correct driver your network device would kick in 
if you have it connected to a wired modem connection you'd see it connect.

When you do find that driver that makes it work you need to make it
start every time the computer starts so type in "sudo nano /etc/modules"
and you'd add the driver to the bottom "rt8139" (without the commas of
course).

If you're still stuck copy and paste the output of "lspci | grep
Ethernet" to this mail list and we'll sus out your driver for you ;)



Good luck!

Octatron




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> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:12:31 +1000
> From: David Bowskill <david at bowskill.net>
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> Hello All
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> I have a problem when installing Ubuntu 10.04 on a Friends Laptop.
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> I have already installed 10.04 with no trouble on my desk top and lap top.
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> In a terminal  "ifconfig eth0" shows 'eth0' to be present on both my
> machines but absent on the Friends laptop (there is also no eth1 etc).
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> The Friends laptop connects to the Internet OK on Windows 7  but because
> of the absence of 'eth0' fails to connect with Ubuntu.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to fix this ?
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> Thanks in advance
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> David B
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