Under sys-admin-networking applet, eth0 is active, ppp0 not configured. etho0 interface is using dhcp.
Currently using Ubuntu 5.10. Maybe this would be a good chance to start over from scratch with 6.06 and maybe this network issue would disappear. Does anyone have a spare 6.06 version? Is this the latest? Cheers Matt > The 'from scratch' / newbie approach.. > > Matthew Whiting wrote: >> ..my machine not automatically >> connecting to the network. Don't really know where to start.. > > What would be appropriate diagnostic tools to use to suss out what >> is happening?.. I'm not familiar enough with linux network admin tools > > Look for the System-Administration-Networking applet. Start it up. Tell > us what this says is enabled. And the network settings are accesible > there - DHCP etc. > > Are we assuming Ubuntu 6.06? (This has the best version of this > networking app on Ubuntu so far, imho. Other releases can be painful.) > > Cheers > -- > Rik >
