Network Disaster

[NoOp]

On 07/15/2009 09:04 AM, John Graddy wrote:
> I suddenly can't bring up rhe network in Jaunty.  Everything was fine
> last night.  I was fooling around with HPLIP, trying to get the
> status of printers to work.  All seemed to be OK.  This morning when
> I booted, I get the message "No System Tray detected on this system".
> No network connections are displayed and I can't figure out how to
> get the network up or to get a system tray added.  I apparently
> accidently messed something up while fooling around eith HPLIP.
> 
> I am now resorting to using Windows to send this email because
> Windows is still working and still is providing network access.  Any
> help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.
> 
> Thanks, John
> 
> 


Perhaps:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/335662
[[jaunty] hplip status service cannot find system tray]
might have some clues.

Also check:
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=hplip+%2Bnetwork>

For the network, are you sure you don't have a network connection;
sometimes the Network Manager icon can get stuck showing no network
connection when you actually do have one. Try:

$ ping google.com
$ ping 74.125.67.100

Check ifconfig

$ ifconfig -a

And if you still do not have networking, try:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart