Earthlink DSL failing to see Ubuntu

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:39:06 -0500
"Dan Martin" <volume at dmartin.org> wrote:

> > The DSL modem (checked the back of the box finally) is 
> > connected to my NIC with Ethernet cable, no router, hardwired.
> > 
> > See my follow-up post for additional strangenesses!
> > And thank you all for putting up with my under-informed problem.
> 
> Try "ifconfig" from the command line, and you should see your network
> interfaces.  "eth0" is probably the interface you are interested in. 
> I would still suggest using the Networking application in the
> administration section of Ubuntu's Gnome desktop.  
> 
> Or if you would rather do it from the command line (and you really
> know what you are doing), you can manually edit
> "/etc/networking/interfaces".  Then you can try "sudo
> /etc/init.d/networking restart".

Here's the results of ifconfig:
(more post below)

cybe at WizardsTower:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:22:34:62  
          inet addr:172.16.1.10  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe22:3462/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15815 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16303 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:5
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:14249398 (13.5 MiB)  TX bytes:1376693 (1.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1917 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:1917 (1.8 KiB)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          inet addr:4.245.87.209  P-t-P:63.215.29.107 
Mask:255.255.255.255          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST 
MTU:1500  Metric:1          RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
          RX bytes:6337 (6.1 KiB)  TX bytes:103 (103.0 b)

This is all Gibberish to me thus far although I do note that there are
only errors in the eth0 slot.  I assume those are from the time when my
dial-up modem wasn't in use.
I wonder if I may start a nested X server and open GNOME there to make
my changes?  Hmmm, it doesn't appear so.

Here's another bit of strangeness:  I can still connect to my email
without the dial-up connected but web and newsgroups are not responding
unless dial-up connected.
I am using Sylpheed-claws for both email and Usenet.

Cybe R. Wizard
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