Ok, so I kept the older kernel - 2.6.17.xx so I could keep getting updates... and when I updated to 2.6.20-8-generic, I noticed the network manager saw a wired connection.
I typed "lspci" in a terminal, and this was the output: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) Thanks guys! Long live Ubuntu. -- attansic ethernet driver missing in feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/81412 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
