Sanjay Singhvi wrote: > Hi, > I am still not able to get over the problem. I get no connection > from the MTNL internet from different places using the ethernet. I > have an Acer Aspire One laptop and using Kubuntu 8.10. I recently > upgraded the kernel. ifconfig shows an address in eth0 for inet6 but > no address or mask for inet. I tried what Rony had said to manually > edit /etc/network/interfaces or to use nano but both did not give any > result. Sometimes, after the edit I get eth0 connection "unmanaged". I > tried to change to "managed=true" but even that did not work. When I > go to K->applications->system->network tools I can see that there is > both ipv6 and ipv4 in lo but only ipv6 in eth0. I believe MTNL dhcp > requires ipv4. Any workarounds? > You have to shut down the knetworkmanager software before doing your connection manually. Knetwork.... appears to be buggy. After that do everything strictly in command line only. It works.
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