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Help needed with ethernet connection

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shivkumar
shivkumar Original post #1
Feb 25, 2009 at 6:45 AM
I am currently using Ubuntu 8.10 and everything was fine till yesterday. But today when I started my computer, it is not connecting to internet.
I use Asianet cable connection through ethernet. The motherboard model is Asus P5KPL-CM.
Friends, till yesterday everything was fine but today no connection in Ubuntu. I am posting through Windows so the network port doesn't have any problems.
Help me please
fabler
fabler #2
Feb 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

are you using broadband connection ? check your IP settings once...
shivkumar
Feb 25, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

its broadband connection... ip address assigned by DHCP.
damngoodman999
Feb 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

ok refresh the network config , restart the network by

service network restart

&

chkconf network on

do this in the terminal
fabler
fabler #5
Feb 25, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

okay.. then go to console and type "ifconfig" command without quotes.. and tell me what is the output..?
shivkumar
Feb 25, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

ok refresh the network config , restart the network by

service network restart

&

chkconf network on

do this in the terminal

didn't work...

i got error message something like "network not exists"
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Hitboxx #7
Feb 25, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

Don't clearly remember where the network file is located in Ubuntu but try in terminal,

sudo /etc/init.d/network start|stop|restart <try one> [also try network(ing)]
shady_inc
Feb 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

Switch on the net, boot in Ubuntu and type interminal:
sudo dhcpcd eth0
This will ask for user password enter it and dhcp will lease an IP address.If not post what it says here.
Also post the output of:
ifconfig
Faun
Faun #9
Feb 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM
^^well that is supposed to be "0" and no "o" AFAIK !
shady_inc
shady_inc #10
Feb 25, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Whooops..My bad.!Fixed.:-D
talktorishav
Feb 28, 2009 at 7:06 AM
or
dhclient <tab> <tab>
and post your output.
shivkumar
shivkumar #12
Feb 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Re: Hwlp needed with ethernet connection

Don't clearly remember where the network file is located in Ubuntu but try in terminal,

sudo /etc/init.d/network start|stop|restart <try one> [also try network(ing)]

Thanks it worked.........
shivkumar
shivkumar #13
Mar 2, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Today I update my system. Now internet connection is not starting by itself. Network Manager Applet is displaying message "Network Manager is not running".
I am able to connect to internet by issuing command "sudo dhclient".