help needed for Ubuntu 8.04 on HP 6720s notebook

[Abhishek Bawkar]

Thanks for the quick reply, Mario.

Right now I am at office. Will try your suggestions and answer your
questions in the evening once I reach home (I am from India).

Best Regards,

Abhishek

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:04 +0530, Abhishek Bawkar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to Ubuntu. I have HP6720s laptop <snip>
> > Network Interface: Intel Fast Ethernet Integrated Controller (10/100
> > NIC)
>
> I have an nc6400, which has a Broadcom NIC, so I can't give advice from
> experience with your machine, but let's see if we can make this work ...
>
> You do use the wired NIC (not the WLAN) to connect to the ISP, yes?
>
> > 1. Ethernet is not working. My ISP does not have DHCP. After setting
> > IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS, it shows that the LAN is
> > connected, I can see the packets being sent/received, but I cannot
> > open any web page neither I can ping any IP.
>
> If packets are being sent/received, you can certainly not say that
> "ethernet is not working" :)
>
> Let's try this step by step:
> Can you ping 127.0.0.1?
> Can you ping your own IP that you received from the ISP?
> Can you ping the ISP's gateway?
> Can you ping the DNS servers?
>
> <snip>
>
> > 2. build-essential is not getting installed.
>
> Of course, if your network does not work.
>
> > 3. not able to compile any of the software packages like AWN, Compiz
> > settings manager etc. It shows "C compiler could not create
> > executables".
>
> Of course, you are probably missing the packages libc6-dev, g++, and
> others (which get installed by build-essential).
> This will be easy to make work once we have your network connection
> working.
>
> I am concerned, however: why would you even want to compile AWN, Compiz
> Settings Manager, etc.? Why now simply install them from the
> repositories and be done with it?
>
> >  When I checked on forums I came to know that g++ is not installed. So
> > I tried to install g++-4.2 (debian package, the one which is there on
> > ubuntu CD (ordered from ubuntu website)),
>
> Stop trying to install stuff as long as your network does not work, it
> will just confuse you more and more :)
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "ordered from ubuntu website", but I
> get the impression that you need to learn how to install software in
> Ubuntu. Please read this:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/index.html
>
> (But don't expect that to work as long as your network connection does
> not work)
>
> > but it says "Dependency not satisfiable: libstdc++6-4.2-dev" and when
> > I try to install libstdc++6-4.2-dev it says "Dependency not
> > satisfiable: g++-4.2". I didn't understand this, g++-4.2 and libstdc
> > ++6-4.2-dev both showing dependency not satisfiable for each others
> > (at least one should be independent of other).
>
> If you read the link I gave above, you will see that you do not have to
> take care of dependencies yourself, it's mostly automatic. (This depends
> on a working network, however)
>
> <snip>
> >  Would like to know whether Ubuntu 8.04 (64 bit version) is the
> > correct installation for my notebook.
>
> Yes
>
> > Please let me know if anyone has got solution for these, at least the
> > Ethernet problem. I guess, once my Ethernet problem gets solved then
> > everything else will be solved by "aptget".
>
> Exactly :)
> Let me know the results of the questions I asked, then we'll see how to
> move forward.
>
>
>
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