7.04 is the latest Ubuntu and networking is fantastic. I have wired network at work and wired at home and it seamlessly connects to what ever is available.
It may not be sufficient reason to upgrade but I'm loving it. On 09/05/07, Matthew Whiting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 >
