help needed for Ubuntu 8.04 on HP 6720s notebook

[Rod James Bio]

Mario Vukelic 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.
>
>
>
>   
There had been problems with 64bit versions of Ubuntu. It seems that 
there is not enough support for this architecture unlike the 32bit. So I 
suggest that you replace your Ubuntu with the 32bit version.