I feel your frustration. Typically a wired ethernet connection is an automatic just-do-it affair. As Stephen mentioned, first thing I'd check is link status. On the back of your PC where the ethernet cable plugs in, there should be a steady green light. On your router, there should be a link light, usually on the front. If not, then you're not getting a basic connection, meaning either the cable, ethernet card in the PC or that port on the router is defective. Swap things around til you get that green light ..
--- On Sun, 6/24/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: How to get ethernet connection? To: "PLUG" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 7:36 PM What do I need to do to get an ethernet connection? I have an ethernet connection on two computers plugged in to my motorola modem/router (there are four ports) but another computer plugged in to one of the open ports does not get a connection. I can get a wireless connection on the same computer, but no wired connection. Under network settings, I see the following: (*) Automatic IP is checked ( ) Manual configuration is not checked IP address is grayed out Netmask is grayed out Gateway is grayed out [ ] Get DNS servers from DHCP was checked but I unchecked it and tried 206.67.222.222 and 220 for DNS servers 1 and 2 (that didn't help) (*) Allow users to manage the connection is checked (*) Start the connection at boot is checked (*) Enable traffic accounting is checked Under "Advanced" settings: IP settings Search domains [ (is blank) ] DHCP client [ dhclient ] DHCP timeout (in seconds) [ (is blank) ] [*] Get YP servers from DHCP is checked [ ] Get NTPD servers from DHCP is blank DHCP host name [ (is blank) ] Metric [ 10 ] MTU [ (is blank) ] [*] Network Hotplugging is checked [*] Enable IPv6 to IPv4 tunnel (was blank; I tried checking it) Why does Linux make all this so convoluted/complex/complicated instead of pre-setting everything so it all "just works"? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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