Internet Access has been knobbled

[Liam Proven]

On 22 March 2017 at 14:53, Gary Taig <taig at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
> On an old machine (10.04), from which I wish to collect (forward) all my old
> email, I'm finding things have changed.  When I start the old Firestarter,
> it reports "ETH0 is not ready".


It's telling you right there in the first line. What more do you want?

It says: Eth0 is not ready.

That means it's not ready. This is not weird jargon.

Look at the 2 reports from ipconfig. What is different? Eth0 has no IP
address. Loopback does.

So, you've disabled the connection between your PC and the router or
whatever device on your network is handling DHCP and your Ethernet
port isn't getting an IP address. Without that, TCP/IP won't work.

So it's telling you: it's not ready.

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