Ubuntu

NIC is not working properly

Asked by vferdman

I am running ver 7.04 off the CD and am trying to connect to my home network, which is very typical setup of Cable modem into Linksys router into computers (wired and wireless). I am trying to establish a wired connection to the router via the NIC on the PC running Ububntu to no avail. The system sees the card and I see the following with ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:74:7D:99
                      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
                      RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                      TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                      collisions:0 txqeueuelen:0xe400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
                      inet addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
                      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
                      RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                      TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
                      RX bytes:400 (400.0 b) TX bytes:400 (400.0 b)

But pinging the router fails, trying to access anything on the lan side fails, wan access fails also. Please help!

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Vladimir

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Omid Alemi (omid) said : 		#1

It seem that you did'nt set yor IP,
do :
$ sudo ifconfig eth0
and set yor IP

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vferdman (vferdman) said : 		#2

Yes, you are correct. The NIC was not setup properly. I actually used the GUI to do it and it took care of it. I guess I expected it to be setup on bootup and come up when the GUI came up. Any idea how to make that happen? I am still running from a CD and have not done the install yet. I am in the process of transferring files from the disk that is slated for the Ubuntu/Windows XP dual boot. As soon as the files are transfered to the NAS (which is why I need network access) I will reformat the drive and install the dual boot setup. I just want to make sure that I can boot up with a working NIC and not have to configure it every time I start Ubuntu. I am a Linux newbie, so please forgive my ignorance. I am kind of spoiled on Windows plug and play, which in all honesty works 99% of the time.

Thanks!

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Vladimir

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Best RandyWallace (randywallacejr) said : 		#3

the manual configuration you put into Network Manager should persist through shut-downs and start-ups.

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vferdman (vferdman) said : 		#4

Ok, but since I am still running from a CD, it will not remember the settings. Once I do an install on the hard disk, I assume it will be ok.

Thanks a lot, this helped and I got done what I needed to get done with the CD boot. I had to transfer some files from a hard disk with an ext3 partition to my NAS and booting Ubuntu from a CD with the drive plugged into the PC instead of the windows drive did the trick. Took almost 9 hours to copy about 100GB, but it did it and all seems well. I am planning on doing a dual boot windows/Ubuntu and becoming a bit more familiar with Linux in the near future.

Thanks!

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Vladimir