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Ubuntu 9.10 no wired or wireless connection

Asked by tecexec on 2009-11-06

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/interfaces, it says bash: /etc/network/interfaces: Permission denied.

Here is printout of ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:d0:59:37:bb:4b
          inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:59ff:fe37:bb4b/64 Scope:Link
          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
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          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::250:8bff:fed0:adc6/64 Scope:Link
          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
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:64 (64.0 B) TX bytes:276 (276.0 B)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x180

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
          collisions:0 txqueuelen: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://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases: Permission denied
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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2009-11-06
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

you cannot run dhclient as a user. You must run it like this:

sudo dhclient

you should also try connecting an Ethernet cable between the system and router and run:

sudo dhcllient eth0

If this fails, you may have to try and set the network with a static IP suitable for your network and see if communications will flow.

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