Have you tried dhclient yet? On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Glenn K0LNY wrote:
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 23:49:20 > From: Glenn K0LNY <glenner...@cableone.net> > To: Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Fw: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04 > > Hi Jude, > The dhcpcd only told me that that is not installed. > And There is nothing in interfaces about eth0. > I do have the ifup, but that does nothing. > But I did the dhclient command you suggested, and now it is finally showing an > IP address that reflects my router's IP range. > So that is progress, but now it cannot get out to the WAN, as updates still > won't connect and FF still gets an error trying to load a page. > But I can ping 192.168.1.1, which is my router. > It did not understand nmtui though. > And it did not know iplink for iplink set eth0 up > But there's some progress. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > To: "Glenn K0LNY" <glenner...@cableone.net> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04 > > > > Hi Glenn, > > > > In /etc/network-interfaces/network-interfaces.d are sample files for > > different type network installs. One of them will have wlan0 in it > > and have that connected to eth0. That one may help if you copy it to > > /etc/network-interfaces but first check the content of > > /etc/network-interfaces if it exists to make sure you don't overwrite > > anything valuable. The contents of /etc/resolv.conf may prove > > informative too. > > > > Have you tried > > dhcpcd > > also > > dhclient > > yet? > > Before you do those dhcpcd and dhclient commands try iproute -a and > > then see where you find yourself. > > If this is a new laptop Ubuntu 10.4 likely won't know all about its > > hardware. > > You may need to install debian firmware edition. > > > > If you'd like it let me know and I'll see if I can send you a script > > to download the iso. > > > > Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Glenn K0LNY wrote: > > > >> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:41:22 > >> From: Glenn K0LNY <glenner...@cableone.net> > >> To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> > >> Subject: Re: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04 > >> > >> Hi Jude, > >> Yes, although I hadn't mentioned that, I did try ifup eth0 and it says > >> ignoring unknown interface eth0 > >> > >> Glenn > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > >> To: "Glenn K0LNY" <glenner...@cableone.net> > >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:35 PM > >> Subject: Re: Fw: loss of Internet Access on Ubuntu 10.04 > >> > >> > >> > eth0 is your wired connection. So it's a matter of waking eth0 up. Have > >> > you got a pair of commands ifup and ifdown on that box? > >> > If yes, have you tried ifup eth0? > >> > If you do that, next try a few pings if that returns no errors. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > > > > -- > > > > > -- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
