Ubuntu 6 network problem

[Clint Tinsley]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "b&p" <thefergies at inicia.es>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Ubuntu 6 network problem
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:37:33 +0200
> 
> 
> Hello there: I've just installed Ubuntu on my hp laptop. The 
> initial install was fine. However as soon as I connected to the 
> internet, throught a b/band router it told me there were 128 
> updates waiting. So I let it do all the updating. And then it asked 
> for a restart and when I did that....no more internet. I've tried 
> all the networking gui's and they say the NIC is active but it 
> won't connect to anything. I can't ping anywhere except localhost 
> either. Can someone offer some suggestions, please?
> Thanks
> b

You can't ping anywhere???

Another command to check is ifconfig (minumum of two interfaces should be listed):
desktop:/etc# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:76:58:D4:11
          inet addr:172.30.0.68  Bcast:172.30.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe58:d411/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1847891 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:450655 (440.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:185 Base address:0xd800

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:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:372 (372.0 b)  TX bytes:372 (372.0 b)