making connection to the internet!

[injo]

Dear all,
greetings...

After having enough of windows i moved finally to linux. I started with ubuntu 8.10 and it was great
then i tried to discover kubuntu but i faced my problem which really made me confused:

Simply I couldn't connect to the internet. I changed the network configurations many times but it didn't work
I read some forums about this issue they were talking about changing the network interfaces and loging in administrator mode, I can't find such options.

Can any body help?
p.s: i find that i could connect in gnome platform but not in kde.

[flarson]

Re: making connection to the internet!

You need to give us a little bit of info. How does your computer connect to the internet? Do you use dial up? Do you connect to a DSL modem through ethernet? through wireless? Do you have an internal DSL modem?

[injo]

Re: making connection to the internet!

I do connect to a DSL modem through ethernet

[flarson]

Re: making connection to the internet!

Your wired ethernet is failing to configure? That is interesting, and l suspect that yo may have been connecting previously through a configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, and with the upgrade network-manager has hijacked your configuration. If that is the case you will have /etc/network/interfaces that looks something like this
*********************
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
*************************
If that is the case
sudo aptitude purge network-manager
will solve your problem. If not you could edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like that and removing network-manager and rebooting would also probably solve your problem.

[injo]

Re: making connection to the internet! (solved)

hello again
Many thanks, that was very helpful..my problem has solved

regards