networking hosed after upgrading to 10.04

[scar]

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Tom H @ 05/31/2011 10:33 AM:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:58 AM, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:
>> Tom H @ 05/31/2011 01:41 AM:
> 
> 
>>> What's the output of "nm-tool"?
> 
> 
>> $ nm-tool
>>
>> State: connected
>>
>> - - Device: eth0  [Auto eth0]
>>  IPv4 Settings:
>>    Address:         192.168.1.139
> 
> So "Auto eth0" is your active network device. If this isn't a box that
> uses wifi (and therefore is more effortless with NM than without), I'd
> remove NM because you're just adding an unnecessary extra layer with
> it installed - unless you can delete the /e/n/i configuration and seet
> up the bridge from within the NM giu or cli (I have no idea whether Nm
> can handle bridging but I know that it's been a goal for a while).
> 
> 
> 
>> my /etc/network/interfaces and ifconfig:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/network/interfaces
>> auto eth0
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> eth0 should be set up as "manual" and not as "dhcp" and it shouldn't
> 
> 
>> $ ifconfig
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:8c:66:d9:b5
>>          inet addr:192.168.1.139  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
> 
> eth0 shouldn't have an ip address (remedied by the above).
> 

i'm a little confused by what you're saying here Tom.  i removed
network-manager and network-manager-gnome since this is mainly a home
server/HTPC machine, but still can't ping www.google.com.  eth0 has
always been setup as DHCP and has always have IP address of 192.168.1.139

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