[CVALE] Problem with Ubuntu Installation

[Patrick Bennett]

Landon, Dennis....

It's been over a year since I've installed an ubuntu box, but I remember 
having trouble with firing up the nic also. I'm a commandline-only guy 
for the most part these days, and my primary experience is with debian 
proper, which is to say that I just sort of "expect" everything to work 
in ubuntu just like it does in debian... so what I remember experiencing 
was from that perspective. I recall that despite a 
/etc/network/interfaces file being present, it seemed to be ignored 
(this caused me no end of frustration). I never had the patience to find 
out if it was an ubuntu bug or just something that didn't work the way I 
was expecting it should. In the end, I think I just manually 
/sbin/ifconfig up'd the card with the settings I wanted and was done 
with it. Landon, I would suggest, as a troubleshooting step, that you 
try manually configuring the nic with ifconfig and see if the problem 
goes away. The info Dennis asked for is also pretty essential.

-Patrick

Landon Blake wrote:
>
> Dennis,
>
> Let me work on getting you this information.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
> Landon
>
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> *From:* cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com 
> [mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Baker
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:14 AM
> *To:* cvale at cvale.org
> *Subject:* Re: [CVALE] Problem with Ubuntu Installation
>
> Well you are missing quite a few key bits. What is the output from 
> these commands:
>
> ifconfig -a
> route -n
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
>
> if you are running DHCP on the network try running dhclient from the 
> command line.
>
> Hmmm... also, what type of NIC is it running?
>
> -- Dennis
>
> On 4/17/07, *Landon Blake* <lblake at ksninc.com 
> <mailto:lblake at ksninc.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm really scratching my head on this one guys.
>
> I successfully installed Ubuntu Linux from the liveCD on one of the 
> computers at work. Everything worked great, including my internet 
> connection.
>
> My IT Guy wanted me to walk him through the installation process, so I 
> installed Ubuntu a second time. (I'll make a convert out of him yet.) 
> The installation went the same as before, except for this time I can't 
> connect to the internet. I can view the network card in the device 
> manager, but no connection.
>
> Nothing has changed from the first install to the second, and I 
> checked the physical network connection. Are the Linux gods angry with 
> me for sharing their secrets with an IT Guy? What could be an 
> explanation for the loss of internet connection between installations?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Landon
>
> P.S. – I posted a question on the Ubuntu user forum, but I didn't get 
> much help.
>
>
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