Ubuntu 6 network problem

[brian]

Clint Tinsley wrote:
>>----- 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)
> 
> 
> 
Thank you Clint. Sorry, I haven't got a clue what a dig is, or what the 
results mean to me. No I can't ping out to anywhere. ifconfig gives me 
eth0 and lo but eth0 shows 0 RX packets, and 0 TX packets. That means 
nothing's connecting to anywhere, so no ping responses. That's about the 
limit of my understanding of this matter. I'd like to get the thing back 
onto the net so I can google and search ubuntu forums and learn a bit 
more. Right now it just won't go anywhere. Seems like the updates have 
screwed things up somewhat. Any other ideas?
Thanks again
b