Dapper: new install Acer 5500Z, no networking after updates

[Clive Menzies]

On (31/05/06 19:33), Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed Dapper on a brand new Acer laptop (Aspire 5500Z).
> Install went fine (with noapic as boot parameter). Once I had logged
> in Gnome, I downloaded the updates (~750). However, after rebooting, I
> can't get networking going again. The network interfaces are
> recognized but dhclient doesn't seem to work. I am not doing anything
> unusual: /etc/network/interfaces contains the stock:
> 
>  auto eth0
>  iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> At this point I am at a loss. Anyone have an ideas?
> 
> As soon as I get this fixed along with a couple other items, I will
> update the wiki with an entry for this model.

What's the output of:

$ sudo ifconfig

Regards

Clive

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