Edgy-beta: wired networking not working?

[Sean Hammond]

It turns out to be this bug:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/58927

which is quite serious and still not fixed in the beta release. I
added as much info as I could to the bug report. Needs attention.

On 10/3/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded a Dapper box to the edgy beta a couple of days ago, and the
> wired network card is no longer working.
>
> The card is set to connect to my router via DHCP, and I have tried
> restarting it etc. I did have network-manager installed, even though
> there is no wireless card, because it reconnects automatically and
> provides status notifications about the wired connection. But I have
> uninstalled it and restarted the machine and reconfigured the card
> with System-Administration-Networking and still nothing.
>
> The card appears to connect successfully, both with and without
> network-manager, but I receive no Internet traffic. I suppose I should
> see if I can ping the router or not, my guess is I will be able to,
> but not able to ping www.google.com.
>
> The problem seems to be with edgy, as I'm using a dapper laptop
> connected to the same router with the same network config right now,
> and I actually upgraded the box in question from dapper to edgy over
> the Internet, with the same router and config. As soon as I restarted
> into edgy - no Internet.
>
> I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?
>