Newbie

[Bob Schmidt]

Well, I checked and it is set to DHCP. When I installed ubuntu it did the
DHCP configuration and passed with no problems. I tried to set a static IP
but that did not work either. Any other suggestions?

Thanks for all the help,
bob 


On 10/7/05 11:21 AM, "Samuel Toogood" <sam_toogood at athsoc.org.uk> wrote:

> Bob Schmidt wrote:
>> Well here's what it says for eth0
>> 
>> Link encap:etherenet  Hwaddr 00:00:86:52:36:99
>> inet6addr: fe80:200:86ff:ffe52:3699/64 Scope:Link
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>> Interrupt:3 Base Address:0x300
>> 
>> It also has a lo areas as well
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
> 
> Looks like you haven't got an IP address set. If you go to the System
> menu and select Administration -> Networking (might be slightly
> different, as I'm running 5.04), and then click on Properties for eth0,
> what do you get? Is your router acting as a dhcp server? If so, just set
> the 'configuration' selector to dhcp and it should work. If not, do you
> know what IP address you should be using.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Sam