Old Laptop + Ubuntu

[Peter Schwenke]

Conlan Kreher wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/26/05, *rpowersau at gmail.com <mailto:rpowersau at gmail.com>*
> <rpowersau at gmail.com <mailto:rpowersau at gmail.com>> wrote: What is the
> output from "ifconfig" and "netstat -r" ?
> @ubuntu:~# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:8D:41:A2
>           inet addr:192.168.1.48 <http://192.168.1.48> 
> Bcast:192.168.1.255 <http://192.168.1.255>  Mask:255.255.255.0
> <http://255.255.255.0>
>           inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe8d:41a2/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:181 errors:1 dropped:6181 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:99 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:64
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:37038 (36.1 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4800
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>  Mask:255.0.0.0
> <http://255.0.0.0>
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:94730 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:94730 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:8397727 (8.0 MiB)  TX bytes:8397727 (8.0 MiB)
> 
> root at ubuntu:~# netstat -r
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> localnet        *               255.255.255.0 <http://255.255.255.0>  
> U         0 0          0 eth0
> root at ubuntu:~#
> 

There is no default route.

Have you tried configuring the interface and set the default gateway.
Try to go to System/Administration/Networking and set the properties for
eth0 and also select the default gateway device.

                                                        ...Peter