I have a Dell Latitude lapton on which I just loaded up release 7.04. The install seems
to have gone well except I have no access to my LAN through the ethernet port. When
I try to "ping 192.168.2.1", I get the error message "connect: Network is unreachable".
I'm fairly sure that it is not a hardware problem because prior to installing 7.04, my
son was using an older release of Kubuntu and the ethernet interface worked fine.
I'm using a Xircom CBE2-100 Ethernet II 10/100 PCMCIA card. The ethernet status
light on dongle is lit.
I did a grep for eth0 in /var/log and here are some of the lines which look like they
could have some meaning. To me it looks like something is wrong, but I don't know
what it might be.
daemon.log: ...... NetworkManger: <information>^Ieth0: Driver 'xircom_cb' does not support detection. ^IYou must switch it on manually.
daemon.log: ...... NewtorkManger: <information>^INow managing wire Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
daemon.log: ...... NewtorkManger: <information>^IDeactivating device eth0.
daemon.log: ...... dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67]
There were more messages from daemon.log, but they look innocent to me. Unfortuately,
I have not way to offload the message file from my laptop to my PC so I can't include them
all here without typing them all in.
Can anyone help with suggestions on what might be wrong?
Jim Anderson