Lisa and Stephen, I got the wired working...looks like a bad cable - see my previous post. Have to take my starving daughter to dinner - they whine a lot when they get hungry...;)
I will let you know about the wifi when I get back! Thanks for the super quick responses!!! Mark On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakach...@obnosis.com>wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz > > wrote: > >> I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Latitude D620. I didn't expect any >> issues based on googling this laptop and Linux. However, I cannot get >> Ethernet or wifi to work. >> >> lspci shows the correct hardware >> >> Ethernet controller; Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigibit >> Ethernet PCI Express (rev 2) >> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) >> >> I went into Network Connections and added a Wired connection and gave it >> a name and selected the MAc address for eth0 (in the drop down list), and >> selected automatic (DHCP) as the method for iP4 >> >> I looked at /etc/network/interfaces >> auto lo >> iface lo inet loopback >> >> so I tried adding >> >> auto eth0 >> >> but no luck. grep -i eth /var/log/syslog gives >> >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver:'tg3' >> ifindex: 2) >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): exported as >> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): mow managed >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): device state change: unmanaged -> >> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 2 0 2] >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): bringing up device >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): preparing device >> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason >> 'managed') [2] >> kernel: [1815.448547] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready >> kernel: [1815.449321] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready >> >> I looked at some forum posts on how to fix this, and the best I found was >> to edit NetworkManager.conf and set managed=true (it came false out of the >> box). That did not help. >> >> Thanks for any other suggestions you may have! >> >> Mark >> >> > It appears to be trying to use a tg3 driver - which is the ethernet. > > Follow these instructions to setup the /etc/network/interfaces networking > for Network Manager: > https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/network-configuration.html > > Example for /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > pre-up /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full > > Manual test (non-persistent): > > # sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > # route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 > > For your wireless: > > Please show us the output of: > > > nm-tool > lsmod | grep b43 > sudo iwlist scan > > > > sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep -e b43 -e firmware -e wpa -e wlan -e etork | > tail -n55 > > $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer > $ sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source > > -- > (503) 754-4452 Android > (623) 239-3392 Skype > (623) 688-3392 Google Voice > ** > <http://it-clowns.com>Safeway.com > Automation Engineer > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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