<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello Alok, After the command ''sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart'' and after supplying the password, Ubuntu replied: * Reconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ] Then I typed ''ifup eth0'', and the system answered: ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied The same with ''ifup eth1'': ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied How to proceed from here? Thanks in advance, regards, Daniel On 23-7-2011 11:30, Alok wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAJk9iB1csp61P1oSkHKpwFfT0nPb7PCLW3uWYvx3Fdww-nKUZA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Dear Mike, From the above output, it seems that both your ethernet ports are down. Which one do you use to connect to the Internet. Try the following commands in a terminal. Atleast one might work. sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart ifup eth0 ifup eth1 <div class="gmail_quote">On 23 July 2011 08:22, D. Hoogland <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dhoogland@interestate.nl">dhoogland@interestate.nl</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello Mike, I tried another command I once read in a post: ip addr show Ubuntu 10.04 replied: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://127.0.0.1/8" target="_blank">127.0.0.1/8</a> scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:01:29:fb:37:b9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:01:29:fb:38:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Is this of any help to you (and me)? kind regards, Daniel <div class="im"> On 23-7-2011 4:59, Mike Kupfer wrote: </div> <div class="im"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>D. Hoogland wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>What do I have to do to get the connection to the Internet back again? </pre> </blockquote> <pre>I would try to (re)start nm-applet. Start a terminal window (under Accessories from the Applications menu), then type the command nm-applet (followed by pressing the Enter key). mike </pre> </blockquote> </div> </div> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>