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[Bob Schmidt]

I did all of this, still no internet. Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Bob


On 10/7/05 12:15 PM, "Sean W" <nameneeded at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bob, you might want to take a look at the following file:
> 
> /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> You should see something like this:
> 
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> If you don't, change it to that.
> 
> Then restart networking
> 
> /etc/init.d/networking restart
> 
> That should set your eth0 to dhcp.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Bob Schmidt wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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