Ubuntu 9.10 no wired or wireless connection
I loaded 9.10 on a Compaq Armada M300. I can not get on my home network. There are no propriety drivers and ifconfig sees the hardware. However, they will NOT connect. If I try the NIC wired connection, it tries but end up saying "wired connection: disconnected, you now offline. The really peculiar thing is the router see both the NIC and wireless card, which it identifies the MAC addresses and even assigns IP address. If I try /etc/network/
Here is printout of ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:d0:59:37:bb:4b
inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2433 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
RX bytes:238040 (238.0 KB) TX bytes:11412 (11.4 KB)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8b:d0:ad:c6
inet6 addr: fe80::250:
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
RX bytes:64 (64.0 B) TX bytes:276 (276.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
dhclient printout shows:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://
can't create /var/lib/
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
Open a socket for LPF: Operation not permitted
I also tried: sudo pppoeconf but it didn't help
I am stumped. PLEASE HELP ME!
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