Fest Fawn - IP settings and some other things

(``-_-´´) -- Fernando Ubuntu at BUGabundo.net
Wed Jun 20 13:27:33 UTC 2007


If you look on launchpad, you will see that there are a few other
users with the same problem.
See if any of them as a fix for you.
Also theres a know bug about IPv6 and some modems. That also might be your case.
If you any more questions dont hesitate to ask.

On 6/20/07, dave L <dglnz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Been a lurker here for ages and now with a fresh install of festy I've got a
> few questions.
>
> Installed this fresh install on sunday 17-6-07
> had some trouble with the IP settings (using cable modem) plugged straight
> into the ethernet card in my PC.
>
> rebooted and it came right but today (2nd time started since install) my
> wife who can't use anything other than kubuntu (she can't use windows at all
> too confusing) LOL couldn't get net access.
> tonight the samething and it took me a while to figure that i had no dns
> numbers.
> also i noticed that the IP address and defaulted to the private range (eg
> 198.blah) I've updated my system via Adept and then used add & remove apps
> from the main KDe menu. had selected a number of apps to be installed from
> there. To the best of my knowledge they all got installed but today when i
> tried to update i got hit with a message saying someother app (eg apt-get or
> aptitude) was in use and i could view only.
>
> To the left of the time clock i saw some icons and found a few apps i'd
> loaded and later closed sitting there. So i removed them and sure enough
> adapt and add & remove was sitting there.
>
> I then removed them from the area and tried again.
>     1st Adept then add & remove still got an error message saying some app
> had control of the
>     repositories!
>
> How can i fix this??
>
> why am i losing the IP network settings??
>
> woundering if festy was such a good move now.
>
> TIA
>
> dave.
>
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