Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

[Snowhog]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

And as a wiser man (might have) said:

"If it's working, why try to break it?"

[toad]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

Well, that IS why we have Linux, isn't it? To live and learn, to break and fix... I just wish I could do some more fixing and less breaking

[Detonate]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

I plead guilty to being a person who often violates the "If it ain't broke rule".

[toad]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

The beauty of Linux is that you can break it yourself rather than it breaking itself (which a certain other OS whose name escapes me at the mo is quite an expert in) - makes quite a difference 8)

[dibl]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

I plead guilty to being a person who often violates the "If it ain't broke rule".

Is that the one that says "If it ain't broke, you must try to improve it!"? That's my favorite rule!

[Snowhog]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

or, "If it aint broke, try harder."

[Detonate]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

So yesterday I decided to install kubuntu-desktop on my Xubuntu 8.10 install and for some reason it broke firefox. No window decoration. Took me two hours to fix it.

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

Hi. I wonder if you could help me please.

I've just gone through your tutorial but the internet is still not working. I just don't know what to do anymore. Been trying to fix this for over a week without no luck. I'm left to browse the internet on my Wii because this is the only thing that works!

[Detonate]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

OK, if I had a Wii I would not have time to help you. I would be playing golf all day.

Let's start by making sure your machine sees it's ethernet device. Run

ifconfig -a

in a terminal, and post the results.

Ditto for

cat /etc/network/interfaces

Is your computer hooked to a router or directly to a cable or dsl modem?

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

Hi. Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly. I had to manually copy all this data to my Wii... Excuse any typos

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:ac:69:6f
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff::feac:696f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:671088600 overuns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:779 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0(0.0B)
Interrupt:219

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:ac:69:6f
inet addr:169.254.6.194 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:219

lo Link encap:Local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX Packets:394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisios:0 txqueuen:0
RX bytes:22176(33.1KB) TX bytes:33176 (33.1KB)

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Laptop is hooked up to a proxy. I have tried using iface eth0 inet static with my network details but didn't work either.

[Detonate]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

Do you see the eth0:avahi that shows an IP address of 169.254.6.194? That means the computer was unable to find a DHCP server and it uses that address so that it can continue, but it is not a true internet connection.

The problem is in the settings you need to connect through your proxy, and I have no experience with that. How do you have your Wii connected? Who runs the proxy? Can they provide you with the information needed to connect?

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

My Wii (I think) is directly connected to the internet. My brother set up the proxy. I do have the connection details but I'm not too sure if I need DHCP or static. Static you can give information but DHCP I'm not so sure. Maybe if I tried researching proxies. Thanks for your help. I'll see what I can find.

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

Been researching and it should just connect through DHCP. So what should I do?

[Detonate]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

I'm not sure. One thing is that proxies work through a specific port, and that port has to be open for it to work. Do you know what port the proxy you are trying to use requires to be open?

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Re: Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI

Using the same data as I did before. There's nothing wrong...but look at how many of my packets have dropped. 452000000. :S Is this more of a serious problem?