help needed for Ubuntu 8.04 on HP 6720s notebook

[Karl Larsen]

James Collier wrote:
> Hi Abhishek,
> <snip>
> 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. I have tried almost everything mentioned
> on the forum "Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and HP 6720s (a hopefully complete
> guide)" and other too to make my Ethernet work, but none of them worked.
> And because the Ethernet is not working I am not able to do "aptget" for
> anything.
> </snip>
>
> Are you sure your ISP doesn't have DHCP? Do you connect to the Internet
> through a modem?
> Better question, do you know exactly how you connect to the Internet and
> if so how?
>
> can you post the output of
> cat /etc/network/interfaces
>
> also attach the file created in your home directory by:
> sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log
>
>
> _When_ you do get on the Internet you would probably prefer to use a
> graphical package manager. But if you'd like to use the shell you'll
> want to type:
> apt-get install <package-name>
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> Started: Tue Sep 2 15:23:10 EST 2008
>   
    I think the output from writing this in a terminal would be 
interesting. Please write $ sudo ifconfig and it will look like this:

karl at karl-hardy:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for karl:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4d:1f:a2:b4 
          inet addr:192.168.0.4  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:fe1f:a2b4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:138142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:130648 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:50551184 (48.2 MB)  TX bytes:19880878 (18.9 MB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x4000

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:14671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:465821 (454.9 KB)  TX bytes:465821 (454.9 KB)

Karl



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