[SOLVED] Problem with New Wired Connection

[electrokuber]

Hello guys, I'm new here and I hope I'm at the right place to post this. ^^

For a long time, I'm trying to configure my Wired Connection (I have ADSL modem and its connected on router), but when I type in Address, Netmask, Gateway then DNS and click OK, Netmask numbers change to 0 or something like that, anyway, its lost.
I tried so much other combination, but its not working.

I tried typing
sudo pppoeconf and its saying that cable isnt recognized, but when I turn to Vista, I have no problems with that...

I'm quiet new to Linux.

Thanks forwards!

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

Please identify the version of Kubuntu you are using. And, open a console and type:

sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces

Copy and paste the output in your reply.

[electrokuber]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

I'm using Kubuntu 9.04.

This is an output:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

[muzicman0]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

is there a reason you are typing in the netmask, dns, etc? if you are behind a router, why not use DHCP?

mm0

[muzicman0]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

oh yeah, if you have to have a static address, the stock network manager doesn't work with static (bug)...go ahead and take a DHCP address, and then open terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get install wicd

This will install a different network manager that (imho) is better than the stock, called wicd. wicd allows the use of static addresses.

mm0

[Detonate]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

Try this:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3100052.0

[13thSlayer]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

and yes, DO try wicd, it's generally better. It does not allow VPN connection managing but there is kvpnc for that.

[electrokuber]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

Here's what I did and output:

electro@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wicd
[sudo] password for electro:     
Reading package lists... Done       
Building dependency tree          
Reading state information... Done     
E: Couldn't find package wicd 
electro@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager-kde
Reading package lists... Done              
Building dependency tree                 
Reading state information... Done            
Package network-manager-kde is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
electro@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager
Reading package lists... Done            
Building dependency tree               
Reading state information... Done          
The following packages will be REMOVED:       
 network-manager plasma-widget-network-manager   
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3621kB disk space will be freed.    
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y               
(Reading database ... 88411 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing plasma-widget-network-manager ...               
Removing network-manager ...
 * Stopping network connection manager NetworkManager          [ OK ]
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/NetworkManager ...
  /etc/rc2.d/S50NetworkManager
  /etc/rc3.d/S50NetworkManager
  /etc/rc4.d/S50NetworkManager
  /etc/rc5.d/S50NetworkManager
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for man-db ...
electro@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
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:556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     RX bytes:42112 (42.1 KB) TX bytes:42112 (42.1 KB)

[Detonate]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

If you are using Jaunty, wicd should be in the repository, if you are using a version prior to jaunty, see this to install.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php

Also run

ifconfig -a

and post the results. The -a option will cause ifconfig to list all interface devices, not just the active ones.

[electrokuber]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

I tried everything of that and still doesnt working.
entry in file interfaces is
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

i checked...

Then I tried this:

electro@ubuntu:~$ wget -q [url]http://apt.wicd.net/wicd.gpg[/url] -O- | sudo apt-key add -
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

And here's the output of ifconfig -a :

electro@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig -a   
eth0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:85:e0:ee:02 
     BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1    
     RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000            
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)       
     Interrupt:19 Base address:0xdead          

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:212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     RX bytes:15656 (15.6 KB) TX bytes:15656 (15.6 KB)

pan0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6e:97:96:34:f0:91
     BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:43:07:8b:32
     BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-22-43-07-8B-32-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
     BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[Detonate]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

What version of Kubuntu do you have installed?

[electrokuber]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

I'm using Kubuntu 9.04.

[ukchucktown]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

You should be able to install wicd. In the meantime, you posted your /etc/network/interfaces file previously. To get your wired connection working manually, add one line to the file. Edit /etc/network/interfaces to match the following:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Save the file and issue the following command from a terminal:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Then try a ping
ping www.google.com

It should work if you get your address dynamically.

[electrokuber]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

When I try to edit file, it says:

The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to /etc/network/interfaces.

Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available.

When I type

sudo /etc/network/interfaces

it says:

sudo: /etc/network/interfaces: command not found

Maybe I should, but I cant install it, I know I'm new to this, but I've posted what it says...

And yes, how can I type address when I removed network manager?

[Detonate]

Re: Problem with New Wired Connection

As you are running Jaunty, the only reason I can think of that yu are unable to install wicd is that you don't have all of the necessary repositories enabled.

Open a terminal and enter

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

and post the results.

The reason you can't edit your interfaces file is it must be edited with sudo privileges.

You can open it to edit with the command

kdesudo kate /etc/network/interfaces