[ubuntu-za] help - connectivity after installing ubuntu server 16.04

Mon Jun 13 13:13:53 UTC 2016

Ok, so you do have an IP address, can you ping the router, or anything else
on the LAN side?

On 13 June 2016 at 15:11, Timothy Spring <lordfoom at gmail.com> wrote:

> little difficult to copy from that machine as I don't have network
> connectivity, so here's my best shot at retyping it:
>
> Running just ifconfig I get:
>
> lo link encap: Local loopback
>     inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>     inet 6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>     UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
>     RX Packets:37417 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>     TX packets:37417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
>     RX bytes: 2281513 (2.2 MB) TX Bytes: 2281513 (2.2MB)
>
> wlp2s0 link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: 4c:80:93:10:f9:6e
>            inet addr: 192.168.10.26 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>            RX Packets:0 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes: 0 (0.0B) TX Bytes: 0 (0.0B)
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the output of ifconfig?
> >
> > On 13 June 2016 at 14:49, Timothy Spring <lordfoom at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Tried the driver download, my lack of knowledge quickly became
> >> apparent. I did notice there are a bunch of iwlwifi files in the
> >> /lib/firmware directory
> >>
> >> More googling led me to to lsmod, and it claims the iwlwifi driver is
> >> loaded.
> >>
> >> Ran
> >> sudo ifconfig wlp2s0 192.168.10.50 255.255.255.0 up
> >>
> >> but got: SIOCSIFADDR Invalid argument
> >>
> >> When I run ifconfig -a, though, I see it's assigned that IP to the
> network
> >> card.
> >>
> >> Not sure I should be trying to assign IPs independently of the dhcp
> >> server - during install it definitely managed to communicate with the
> >> dhcp server, if the onscreen messages were to be believed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Ok what is your network details? Assign it an IP address, because then
> >> > by
> >> > the looks of it, it's not getting an IP from the DHCP server, command
> is
> >> >
> >> > sudo ifconfig wlp2s0 <ip address> netmask <mask address> up
> >> >
> >> > On 13 June 2016 at 14:26, Timothy Spring <lordfoom at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hey there,
> >> >>
> >> >> @anton - when I run ifconfig -a I can see the card listed as wlp2s0
> >> >>
> >> >> @neil rfkill isn't installed and I need internet  connectivity to get
> >> >>
> >> >> It's an intel centrino wireless-n 1030 (rainbow peak). I can't
> >> >> understand why it connected during the install from USB, but now I
> >> >> can't connect at all?
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm getting the driver from
> >> >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi - will
> >> >> attempt to manually install now....
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> > What card is it? There should be drivers for it.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On 13 June 2016 at 14:03, Greg Eames <greg at gandcnet.com> wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hi Anton
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I would think that the server does not have the wireless drivers
> for
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> card or they are not enabled.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Not sure of the best place to get them. Maybe linuxwireless.com,
> I
> >> >> >> think.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Kind regards
> >> >> >> Greg Eames.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, 13:25 Neil Oosthuizen <nlsthzn at gmail.com>
> >> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>>> The wireless card is  there but DISABLED - Intel Centrino
> >> >> >>>>> Wireless-N
> >> >> >>>>> 1030 (Rainbow Peak)
> >> >> >>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Hi,
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Try - "rfkill unblock all" in terminal and see if that helps.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> Neil
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