route troubles -- please help

[Karl F. Larsen]

Jay Ridgley wrote, On 02/20/2010 09:52 AM:
> Folks,
>
>    I tried to do something and shot myself in the foot again... (this is getting
> old!)
>
> I am using a laptop on both a wireless network and a wired network. It would be
> nice, I thought, to have two different names for it. So I changed the hostname
> just before bringing it up... BAD BAD! I have got the hostname back where it
> should be. However, I have no routes, at boot and can not get to my wired
> network. What should I do to get things back together??
>
> I have tried adding the routes manually and route -n shows them correctly. But
> the network is still unreachable, even after stopping&  starting networking. Of
> course, when I reboot after adding the routes they go away again. Are they not
> kept somewhere in a file that I can edit or configure??
>
> Thanks,
> Jay

	Jay, all my Ubuntu versions will find a wired Internet 
without ANY problem. Laptops often have trouble with wireless 
because that is more difficult.

	So try just turning on your laptop with the wired Internet 
and see if it doesn't work.


73 karl



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