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no network manager installed

Asked by Ferdinand de Grijs on 2009-03-12

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 several times (installing from a burned CD and installing on the whole disk of 40 GB) and managed to activate my wireless card (Speedtouch ST123g) but could not connect to my SpeedTouch 780. At last I connected my ethernet port directly to my router (wired) and still did not get connected to internet or to the router. The little light on the ethernetconnection showed green but the light on the router did not shine. Starting /etc/init.d/networking start interfaces did show that no DHCPoffer was done on eth0 255.255.255.255 port 67. (see system print below)
My ethernet card is a Realtek RTL-8029(AS).

Installing of Network-Manager is not an option because the system asks a LIBC6 package install of >=2.4 where my CD installed 2.3.6 !!! (While the package >= 2.4 already was asked by Ubuntu 8.04 ). Installing a new version of LIBC6 causes many problems because of the dependency of LIBC6 to many other packages.

Questions:
- why NetWorkmanager has not been installed in tis fresh install ?
- why does my router 'not see' the wired connection with my Ubuntu installation ?

when I do a ping on my IP adres of my router I get : Network is unreachable.

here I display some of my commands on the system with answers:
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fdegrijs@fdegrijs-dsklnx:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:85:63:2D
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:7dff:fe85:632d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:2295 overruns:0 frame:3574
          TX packets:6 errors:57 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:80
          collisions:680 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:24192 (23.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:193 Base address:0xece0

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

fdegrijs@fdegrijs-dsklnx:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking start interfaces
* Configuring network interfaces... Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:7d:85:63:2d
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:7d:85:63:2d
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
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