Your suggestions 5 and 6 are at least non-trivial. But, can I do all this configuring of the Ethernet port BEFORE connecting it to the Hub? I have two reasons for preferring this: one, I imagine it is better set-up procedure in general, to configure ports in advance before connecting them (if they are not self-configuring), and two, this Home Hub is exceedingly prone to mental indigestion, requiring from time to time a hard reset to factory condition, and a wait of an hour or more to stabilise itself.
I would consider switching to a Linux-friendly ISP, which would provide a Linux-friendly router, if there is such a thing. As to the ports it has, this is the spec.: http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-notebook-lc2430s.html and, as you can see, it has one RJ-45 Ethernet port and 3 USB 2.0 ports. Michael Holloway wrote: > Rowan, I think we are all confused that it didn't "just work" as this > concept is a bit alien to us :-) > > Lets start from the beginning. > > 1. Are the lights on the ethernet ports on both the computer and the BT > box green/orange flashing etc ? > > 2. You say you have "a multitude" of ports. How many Ethernet ports? > (Setting up USB is likely to be more difficult). > > 3. Is the ethernet cable you have a normal CAT 5e cable? (I think there > is a different type of cable with the same plug used for ADSL cable or > soemthing). > > 4. Have you tried using a different network cable? > > 5. In the terminal, ("Applications->Accessories->Terminal"), can you > type "sudo lshw | grep eth" (and enter your password). If there is no > output then we can assume there is a driver problem. Otherwise it should > list any ethernet ports. > > 6. If you go to the terminal and type "ifconfig" what is the output? > > ... and then we can take it from there. > > Regards, > Michael > > > > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:43 +0000, Rowan wrote: > >> I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I made it clear in my first post >> that it didn't just work out of the box like that. You all seem to >> assume I haven't even attempted to configure it, but if you read my >> first message, I state that I have attempted to connect in the >> straighforward way already, and also attempted to use the Network >> Connections panel in the computer (which presumably follows a familiar >> Ubuntu layout) but I see no Ethernet option there. >> > > > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
