[PLUG] Bringing up network on xubuntu

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 15:15:55 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Tony Rick wrote:
>
> > In any case, you should be able to connect to the router with (gasp) an
> > Ethernet cable, do the update, and go back to wireless after that.
>
> tony/Joe:
>
>   Yes, one would think this would work, but it's not playing nicely.
>
>   There's no built-in Ethernet on this Tecra 8000, so I put in a PCMCIA
> adapter card and wired that to the router. The link and full duplex lights
> on the adapter light up.
>
>   In /etc/network I edited the interfaces file so eth0 has a static IP
> address, netmask, and gateway address; only eth0 is listed as 'auto'.
> Unfortunately, when I run '/etc/init.d/networking start' that interface
> fails to come up. It's not recognized.
>
>   Something in the distribution upgrade really torqued this system. The
> wired/static connection ought to be seen and that interface should be
> recognized and made visible, but that's not happening. Sigh.
>
> Rich
>
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Rich if you don't have success in the next hour or 2 let me know and i can
bring over a USB wireless adapter that I know works .. it should at least
let you finish the upgrade.

Drew-



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