On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > xubuntu-10.04 [....] > > However, even when booting the laptop with the ethernet cable > connected, we cannot get connection to be recognized. The system > keeps trying to connect to a wireless network (we see 6 others in > the neighborhood), and I cannot turn off that search and turn on the > wired connection. I've tried Fn-F8, the wireless switch via the > keyboard, but it makes no difference.
The big question is whether or not NetworkManager is managing the network connections: ps -ef | grep Network If it is, then there should be a little NetworkManager GUI applet that will control things. I've never used xubuntu, so I'm not sure where to tell you to look. If NetworkManager is NOT running the show, then the file you'll find most helpful is /etc/network/interfaces. Its format is described in the interfaces(5) man page. Assuming that your wired interface is eth0, you'll probably want a couple lines in that file: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
