Wired networking suddenly stopped on Laptop

[damian]

Mark Haney wrote:
> damian wrote:
>   
>> I've been away using a friends wireless set up (as I have done many 
>> times before), but I've returned and plugged my laptop into my wired 
>> network and I can't get emails or any web pages in firefox. I can ping 
>> the main machine on the network which is always on, but can't seem to do 
>> much else. Can someone guide me where to look to sort this out?
>>
>> It's not a physical problem as the laptop is dual boot and XP can still 
>> connect fine.
>>
>> Looking forward to your thoughts.
>>
>> Damian
>>
>>     
>
> What's the output of ifconfig?  What's the default route?  Can you ping 
> the default gateway?  I'd look at all the network settings and start 
> pinging devices from host up.  My guess is the default gateway isn't right.
damian at D820:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:c5:1b:89:62
          inet addr:192.168.0.128  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe1b:8962/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:689046 (672.8 KB)  TX bytes:553303 (540.3 KB)
          Interrupt:18

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:1314 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1314 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:65700 (64.1 KB)  TX bytes:65700 (64.1 KB)

I seem to be able to ping every machine on my system.
Connection settings seem to be correct:
Static IP address
IP: 192.168.0.128
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.1 - which is my router.

Still can't connect to the net at all. Any ideas?

Damian