Some further guidance would be helpful, because I have been without network conection for almost a month now and have made practically zero progress on solving the problem.
I'm running 64-bit Kubuntu 10.4 on an Asus a8v AMD socket 939 motherboard with an onboard Marvell Gigabit network connection. This configuration has been running OK since I first installed Ubuntu about a year ago at version 9.10, until a month ago, when it stopped for no obvious reason. I am at the latest released level of the kernel. Grub menu shows the 2 previous releases. None of those work either - but have done in the past.
This is a dual boot machine. Windows XP boots fine and provides all the network connectivity I expect. (But I'm not using it now to submit this forum post). So there is no hardware problem all the way to my ISP.
I have searched this forum for similar or related posts, but the search facility does not give me usefull results when used in the only way I know how. For example, searching for 'no network conection' finds every post that contains the string 'no' - and this seems to occur very frequently, for example within the word 'Canon'. As you might expect, the number of hits is so large as to make the search of no value.
I searched the 'HowTos'. The most obvious one - on how to trouble shoot without a GUI very quickly tells me that solving the problem of my network connection not being recognised is beyond the scope of the HowTo! It suggests I search the forum for other information...
If I stumble about within the wholly inscrutable Network Manager and Firestarter applications, I am told to check my network connection settings because the network card is disabled. I don't have a network card.
Aside from that, I have no idea what network connection settings to check, where to find them, how to check them and how to know what the settings should be. The advice 'check your settings' is about as much use to a non-technical end user as the admonition to 'be successful'. I small amount of additional process definition is required, don't you think?
So, if somebody can point me to a good problem source identification procedure, I would be most grateful. I have chosen Ubuntu from among all other Linux distributions because I want to get out from under Winows as much as I can, as soon as I can - but it is no use me struggling like this and making no progress.
I'm running 64-bit Kubuntu 10.4 on an Asus a8v AMD socket 939 motherboard with an onboard Marvell Gigabit network connection. This configuration has been running OK since I first installed Ubuntu about a year ago at version 9.10, until a month ago, when it stopped for no obvious reason. I am at the latest released level of the kernel. Grub menu shows the 2 previous releases. None of those work either - but have done in the past.
This is a dual boot machine. Windows XP boots fine and provides all the network connectivity I expect. (But I'm not using it now to submit this forum post). So there is no hardware problem all the way to my ISP.
I have searched this forum for similar or related posts, but the search facility does not give me usefull results when used in the only way I know how. For example, searching for 'no network conection' finds every post that contains the string 'no' - and this seems to occur very frequently, for example within the word 'Canon'. As you might expect, the number of hits is so large as to make the search of no value.
I searched the 'HowTos'. The most obvious one - on how to trouble shoot without a GUI very quickly tells me that solving the problem of my network connection not being recognised is beyond the scope of the HowTo! It suggests I search the forum for other information...
If I stumble about within the wholly inscrutable Network Manager and Firestarter applications, I am told to check my network connection settings because the network card is disabled. I don't have a network card.
Aside from that, I have no idea what network connection settings to check, where to find them, how to check them and how to know what the settings should be. The advice 'check your settings' is about as much use to a non-technical end user as the admonition to 'be successful'. I small amount of additional process definition is required, don't you think?
So, if somebody can point me to a good problem source identification procedure, I would be most grateful. I have chosen Ubuntu from among all other Linux distributions because I want to get out from under Winows as much as I can, as soon as I can - but it is no use me struggling like this and making no progress.
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