No John, The "never" means that ethernet (or is it wireless?) has /never/ connected!
Keith --- Keith Bowerman, Prestwood, south Staffs, England. ----- Original Message ---- From: John <[email protected]> To: British Ubuntu Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 13 February, 2009 2:25:16 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to my ethernet Connection...... Ok, have checked the connections, and rebooted, but its still showing never in the network box. Would that be what is causing the wired connection problem? John. Matt Jones wrote: > It sounds like it could be the router/switch/modem on the other end of > the cable, especially with the dying wireless as well. > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am having problems connecting to my ethernet connection, when the two >> green lights appear, its still waiting for an address, when I look in >> the Network box, it says Auto eth0.....never. I have rebooted the >> machine, for it to try to just connect to the etherneet cable but it >> keeps connecting to the wireless connection. >> >> I just wondered if that had something to do with it not connecting to >> the ethernet network. >> >> It connects to the wireless ok, but that keeps on disconnecting when >> downloading updates. >> >> Does anybody have a ideas on why this is happening? >> >> Thank you. >> >> John. >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> >> > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
