I'm having an odd networking problem. My desktop computer has been wired to the D-Link router for several years now, and all of a sudden the other day I rebooted, and it wouldn't get an IP address. When I told it what IP address to get, it didn't get the DNS.
At this point I was running LUBUNTU 12.10. I had disabled the wireless networking through some convoluted scheme I couldn't remember, so I decided that it made more sense to upgrade to 14.04, since it had been working pretty well on the new laptop. (As usual, there are things wrong with both printing and sound, but nothing I can't work around.) 14.04 reported that the wired ethernet was disconnected, and connected fine to the wireless network, so I am functioning. But I still didn't understand why the wired network didn't work. I tried a USB ethernet adaptor, and that didn't work either. Plugging the ethernet cable into the laptop running on Windows 8.1 works fine, but when the laptop is running ubuntu 12.04 it doesn't. Googling finds some people who had to edit /etc/network/interfaces to tell Ubuntu more information about the connection, but none of that works for me. Any ideas? -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) <https://plus.google.com/u/0/116029698292079786511> (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 <http://www.laymusic.org/> <http://www.serpentpublications.org> I'm at the very peak of my decline. Leonard Bernstein _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
