Ubuntu 6 network problem

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Hello there: I've just installed Ubuntu on my hp laptop. The initial 
> install was fine. However as soon as I connected to the internet, 
> throught a b/band router it told me there were 128 updates waiting. So I 
> let it do all the updating. And then it asked for a restart and when I 
> did that....no more internet. I've tried all the networking gui's and 
> they say the NIC is active but it won't connect to anything. I can't 
> ping anywhere except localhost either. Can someone offer some 
> suggestions, please?

It happens to me as well, often when I reboot into Edgy to update it then go back to Dapper.
The Network GUI also always tell me that my NIC is active. What has always worked for me so far, is to disable the NIC, then enable it again, then make sure that the proper NIC is selected as default gateway (often, no NIC is selected).

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Vince