When you initially installed the OS, there was no detectable network interface, so the installer must have decided not to enable NetworkManager. When the second NIC was added, NM wasn't there to detect and enable it. As soon as you manually started NM, life was groovy.
So. The root cause: Linux didn't detect your onboard Ethernet. If you want to walk away from this with a working system, that you don't want to mess with any more, that's fine. If you want to get to the bottom of this, find out why your on-board NIC didn't come up. One thing that didn't occur to me last night is that maybe it's disabled in the BIOS. You could check your BIOS settings. The other possibility is that it's a new or obscure chip that Linux doesn't know about. Would you like to post the entire output of "lspci" and we'll see if we can see it (and what kind it is). Anyway, glad you're up and on the air. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:29 AM, marbux <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark this issue solved, other than why neither Puppy nor Ubuntu > auto-configured the connection. > > After launching NetworkManager from a console and seeing no results, I > decided to pack it in on the issue for tonight and began playing > Mah-Jong on the new machine. Then I noticed a new icon on the task > bar, right-clicked on it, and up pops a menu with one item an > unchecked "Enable Networking" option. > > Checked the option and then loaded my first web page on the new > machine, from which I am dispatching this email. Please let me know if > you didn't receive it. :-) > > Thanks one and all, a lot, and especially Bob for coming up with the solution. > > Best regards, > > Paul > > -- > Universal Interoperability Council > <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > -- Bob Miller K<bob> k...@jogger-egg.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
