Dapper : no connection to the internet

[Harold Johnson]

As it turns out, it was extremely easy to configure once I discovered the
Networking control panel under System in Ubuntu (or in my case, Xubuntu).
Just clicked a button to activate my Ethernet, and I was immediately online!

Harold


On 6/8/06, sebastien <scamot2004 at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Dapper does not prompt for networking information during the
> > installation, I've found, leaving the network unconfigured.  This is
> > problematic for the target audience of the software who are probably
> > going to be left lost at this point.
>
> Yep that's my case !
> My dapper /etc/network/interfaces is configured properly for DHCP (and
> the same as my actual Breezy), and Ive even tried to fix an IP address
> as you advised us to. But that's useless. It cannot connect to the local
> network while my breezy does. In dapper, eth0 is detected OK but it's
> very slow to inizialize (from network-admin) and doesn't work.
>
> log message is (dmesg) in dapper :
> [4295357.469000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> [4295360.471000] 0000:00:11.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc740000
> CSR6 0x2042202)
>
>
> seb
>
> >
> > My Ethernet was detected just fine, however no network was configured
> > as the machine does not sit on a DHCP enabled network.  You can
> > configure your IP address and whatnot using the file
> > /etc/network/interfaces.  You'll want to change the entry that reads:
> >
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > To read something like this:
> >
> > iface eth0 inet static
> >         address 10.22.154.14
> >         netmask 255.255.255.0
> >         gateway 10.22.154.1
> >
> > That's from my machine and your configuration may differ.  Also,
> > you'll need to add nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf.  This file does
> > not exist by default so it's safe to create it.  You'll want something
> > like this in there:
> >
> > search domain1.com domain2.com
> > nameserver 192.168.10.11
> > nameserver 192.168.10.14
> > nameserver 10.22.119.161
> >
> > Obviously, again, your configuration will differ, but you should have
> > the idea.  Note that the search directive is entirely optional.  The
> > nameserver directives (you must have at least one, and no more than
> > three) are not.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
>
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