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I had an issue with manual config in 5.10.<br>
My problem was solved when I used the <br>
System->Networking->Administration menu to <br>
both enable the interface as well as activate it.<br>
And it worked. I didn't both to figure out why the manual<br>
config didn't work contrary to my expectation.<br>
<br>
Alfred,<br>
<br>
Jay Ridgley wrote:<br>
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<div><b>To:</b> <a title="peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au"
href="mailto:peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au">Peter Garrett</a> </div>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:41 PM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: NOT HAPPY after Breezy upgrade/install</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Peter,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">cc: ubuntu-users</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sorry for the direct reply, however,
I have limited means to provide information. An * indicates my response,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I appologize for the length and any
mispellings.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What would you suggest I try next?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">On
Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:50:27 -0500<br>
"Jay Ridgley" <</font><a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</font></a><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Folks,<br>
> <br>
> This is hard for me to say, however, after I did an upgrade from a
working 5.04 Ubuntu installation to 5.10. I discovered that networking
did not work anymore. <br>
<br>
Can you be more specific? </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* I have a small network (3 systems
+ firewall system). Prior to the latest attempt to upgradge, it was
working fine.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> afterwards I am no longer able
to ping from my main workstation to the other systems. If I manually
enter:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> sudo ifconfig eth0 polar netmask
255.255.255.0 I am able to do so. However I am still unable to get to
the outside world ie. "The net" from that system, yet I am able to get
there from the other systems I am using. One is a laptop that runs MS
Windows ( I want to convert it as well but not yet..). It is the one I
am using for this connection! It is connected to my network and is
called nomad (see below) </font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">What
was/is your network setup? </font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">* All
hardwired systems (cat 5) with a hub.</font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* polar 192.168.x.4 ursa
192.168.x.3 nomad 192.168.x.10 <---- workstations</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* mateo 192.168.x.2 <----
firewall, gateway also connects to the "Net" via a 2nd NIC via a
dynamic IP cable </font><font face="Arial" size="2">* connection. It
is also my nameserver.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">What
is thecontents of /etc/network/interfaces ?</font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div>* This file contained the wrong IP address for polar, I thought
AHA I found it, but after correcting that and all </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* all other entries accociated with
it, including /etc/networks. I rebooted -- no joy -- had to add the
eth0 manually.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* no other changes in behavior have
been discovered.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Was
your nic recognised? </font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">*
Indications are that it is being recognized because when I do an
ifconfig -a before doing the ifconfig for eth0 it</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">* shows</font></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"> everything but the IP address. The loopback
interface ( lo) shows up as well. The tulip driver is being</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* loaded</font><font face="Arial"
size="2"> during boot.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">What
hardware are you using? </font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* An Intel box with a 686 processor,
scsi disks, tape and CDRW and an IDE CD (added specifically to support</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* Ubuntu,</font><font face="Arial"
size="2"> but that is another matter). Plus the other necessary HW
including the NIC.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">"Did
not work" in what sense? <-- see above</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Could
you ping</font></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3">between network machines? <-- see
above and below</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Were
you unable to connect to the Internet? <-- see above and below<br>
Are you using cable, dialup, adsl ? Cable </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Do
you use Samba? <-- NO </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">NFS?
<-- NO </font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">And
so on...<br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* The following commands are what I have
been using to get as far as I have. Note x stands for the the third
node of</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* the</font></font></font><font face="Arial"
size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font face="Arial"
size="2"> quad, it is correct.</font></font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* ifconfig <-- shows ONLY lo</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* route -n <-- shows nothing bu
the header</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* ifconfig -a <-- no eth0 IP address but
eth0, lo and sit0 show up</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* sudo ifconfig eth0 polar netmask
255.255.255.0</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* ifconfig -a <--- shows the
correct IP address for eth0 all the others are unchanged</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* -- NOW I can ping other systems on
my network</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* route -n <--- shows an entry for eth0</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* sudo route add -net 192.168.x.0 netmask
255.255.255.0 gw mateo</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* route -n <-- the added gateway line is
added and appears correct</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* ping yahoo.com <-- unknown host, I still am
able to ping within my network</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br>
> After several attempts to manually configure it with no success I
decided<br>
> to do an install. <br>
<br>
An install? Do you mean a complete OS reinstall ? <-- Yes </font></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">What
do you mean exactly? <br>
* I booted from an install disk for 5.10 direct from Canonical. And did
a default installation, just like I did</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">* when
I initially brought up 5.04.<br>
</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">>
The results of that activity were also less than what I<br>
> wanted... networking still broke, thunderbird is not there, and
some other<br>
> minor items are also not right.<br>
<br>
As far as I know, Thunderbird is not installed by default in Ubuntu -<br>
Evolution is (although IIRC Thunderbird is on the disc)<br>
> <br>
> I have been using Linux for years and this has been about the most
frustrating experience I have had.<br>
<br>
That's unfortunate - we might be better able to help with a bit more<br>
detail about your setup and a bit more precision - for instance, do you<br>
have any error messages you can tell us about? ( Alt-F4 in the installer<br>
might tell you what went wrong on the reinstall, for example, or the<br>
install logs in /var/log/installer ? )<br>
</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">* Nothing indicating any errors, so I guess all
was OK.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">>
<br>
> Can I go back to 5.04 from 5.10? <br>
<br>
If you mean a direct downgrade, I don't think so - at least not without
a<br>
lot of frustrating fiddling about.<br>
<br>
> At least it was working except for supporting a new HP PSC1610
printer <br>
> I purchased. That was the reason for the move to 5.10, it was
suggested that perhaps it would be easier <br>
> to debug the problem.<br>
> <br>
> My only other alternative is to go back to RedHat 7.3, which was
what I was using when I moved to Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
Red Hat 7.3 was a great distro - but that was a few years ago...<br>
* It was working just fine for me, except I wanted to get some of the
new things like firefox and thunderbird.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*
I converted to Ubuntu in January, I liked it! When I bought the printer
i could not get it to be recognized </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*
and the person working with me suggested upgrading to 5.10.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><br>
Peter<br>
-- <br>
<br>
Linux User #343161 </font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for the hints,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jay</font></div>
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