<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks! That's a lot of useful information. I'm setting out to try it now.<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Chuck Payne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">you can always to do the following.<br>
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sudo vim /etc/networking/interfaces<br>
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auto eth0<br>
iface eth0 inet dhcp<br>
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Of course change to the device you need.<br>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The output of ifconfig looks normal. But ifup eth0 and wlan0 both report<br>
> that the interface is not found. When I run dhclient, it goes out to all<br>
> interfaces, but doesn't connect to anything. Running netstat -nr after that<br>
> seems to show a connection to the modem, but no real IP address and I can't<br>
> ping anything. I would post some output here, but when I'm on Linux, I have<br>
> no way to capture and send.<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Tim Watts <<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> what runlevel are you in?<br>
>><br>
>> what output do you get when you try starting the network/dhclient?<br>
>><br>
>> what does ifconfig say afterwards?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 07:48 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:<br>
>> > I unexpectedly hosed my KDE setup in Kubuntu in trying to resolve some<br>
>> > dependencies. This would be a solvable problem, but I have no X<br>
>> > session available with KDE dead. And I don't have a network connection<br>
>> > at the command prompt...not even if I plug in ethernet directly. Here<br>
>> > are some things I have tried:<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > ifup eth0<br>
>> > ifup ath0<br>
>> > ifup wlan0<br>
>> > start networking<br>
>> > start network-manager<br>
>> > dhclient<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > None of this leads to any connection. In the old days, I had a<br>
>> > connection automatically on starting. Now, nothing seems to happen<br>
>> > until someone logs in to an X session. How can I get my network<br>
>> > connection?<br>
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