<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the quick reply, Mario.</div>
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<div>Right now I am at office. Will try your suggestions and answer your questions in the evening once I reach home (I am from India).</div>
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<div>Best Regards,</div>
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<div>Abhishek<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Mario Vukelic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:04 +0530, Abhishek Bawkar wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br></div>> I am new to Ubuntu. I have HP6720s laptop <snip><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Network Interface: Intel Fast Ethernet Integrated Controller (10/100<br>> NIC)<br><br></div>I have an nc6400, which has a Broadcom NIC, so I can't give advice from<br>experience with your machine, but let's see if we can make this work ...<br>
<br>You do use the wired NIC (not the WLAN) to connect to the ISP, yes?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> 1. Ethernet is not working. My ISP does not have DHCP. After setting<br>> IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS, it shows that the LAN is<br>> connected, I can see the packets being sent/received, but I cannot<br>
> open any web page neither I can ping any IP.<br><br></div>If packets are being sent/received, you can certainly not say that<br>"ethernet is not working" :)<br><br>Let's try this step by step:<br>Can you ping <a href="http://127.0.0.1/" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a>?<br>
Can you ping your own IP that you received from the ISP?<br>Can you ping the ISP's gateway?<br>Can you ping the DNS servers?<br><br><snip><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> 2. build-essential is not getting installed.<br><br></div>Of course, if your network does not work.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> 3. not able to compile any of the software packages like AWN, Compiz<br>> settings manager etc. It shows "C compiler could not create<br>> executables".<br><br></div>Of course, you are probably missing the packages libc6-dev, g++, and<br>
others (which get installed by build-essential).<br>This will be easy to make work once we have your network connection<br>working.<br><br>I am concerned, however: why would you even want to compile AWN, Compiz<br>Settings Manager, etc.? Why now simply install them from the<br>
repositories and be done with it?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> When I checked on forums I came to know that g++ is not installed. So<br>> I tried to install g++-4.2 (debian package, the one which is there on<br>> ubuntu CD (ordered from ubuntu website)),<br>
<br></div>Stop trying to install stuff as long as your network does not work, it<br>will just confuse you more and more :)<br><br>I don't understand what you mean by "ordered from ubuntu website", but I<br>get the impression that you need to learn how to install software in<br>
Ubuntu. Please read this:<br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/index.html" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/index.html</a><br><br>(But don't expect that to work as long as your network connection does<br>
not work)<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> but it says "Dependency not satisfiable: libstdc++6-4.2-dev" and when<br>> I try to install libstdc++6-4.2-dev it says "Dependency not<br>> satisfiable: g++-4.2". I didn't understand this, g++-4.2 and libstdc<br>
> ++6-4.2-dev both showing dependency not satisfiable for each others<br>> (at least one should be independent of other).<br><br></div>If you read the link I gave above, you will see that you do not have to<br>take care of dependencies yourself, it's mostly automatic. (This depends<br>
on a working network, however)<br><br><snip><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Would like to know whether Ubuntu 8.04 (64 bit version) is the<br>> correct installation for my notebook.<br><br></div>Yes<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Please let me know if anyone has got solution for these, at least the<br>> Ethernet problem. I guess, once my Ethernet problem gets solved then<br>> everything else will be solved by "aptget".<br>
<br></div>Exactly :)<br>Let me know the results of the questions I asked, then we'll see how to<br>move forward.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
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