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[Barry Marler]

On 10/7/05, Bob Schmidt <bob58523 at charter.net> wrote:
> 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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When you type 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart', what output do
you get at the terminal?