Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Russell Senior
The goal of Network Manager is to make networking invisible. If it can work and it figures out how, it Just Works, otherwise it Just Gives Up. My guess is that there is some physical or PEBKAC problem that Network Manager can't compensate for. In Ubuntu, if I am doing diagnosis, I just turn off

Re: [PLUG] Resolve.conf issue

2010-10-24 Thread Ali Corbin
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, William Morita wrote: > Group > > I am running CentOS 5, with current updates > I changed ISPs and have not been able to change the name servers using > system-control-network. > Currently I must manually update resolv.conf to get things working. > > I have shutdo

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
Rich Shepard writes: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: [...] >> Anyway, it means the interface is not configured in /etc/network/interfaces, >> basically, though it wouldn't hurt to check the content there just in case. >> >> (Er, just to check, you /did/ run that command as root, rig

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: > The "eth0=eth0" part is because Debian[1] support mappings in their basic > network configuration, and in this case you are using the identity mapping > rather than "eth0=home" or whatever. (Which is no surprise, because you > have not configured that

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
Dale Snell writes: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:43:57 -0700 > Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I need help from you folks administering Ubuntu systems. On my wife's >> laptop only the wireless connections are seen (here and in the >> neighborhood). The topmost portion, wired networks, says there aren't any >

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
Rich Shepard writes: > I need help from you folks administering Ubuntu systems. On my wife's laptop > only the wireless connections are seen (here and in the neighborhood). The > topmost portion, wired networks, says there aren't any although I have an > ethernet cable connecting the box to the l

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Dale Snell wrote: > Get into NetworkManager's preferences, and check IPv6 settings for your > wired interface. Dollars to doughnuts it'll be set to Automatic. Set it to > Ignore. You may have to restart NetworkManager. Well, Dale, you can keep the doughnut, but the IPv6 se

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Dale Snell wrote: > Get into NetworkManager's preferences, and check IPv6 settings for your > wired interface. Dollars to doughnuts it'll be set to Automatic. Set it > to Ignore. You may have to restart NetworkManager. Dale, Thank you. I'll give that a try. I didn't look

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Dale Snell
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:43:57 -0700 Rich Shepard wrote: >I need help from you folks administering Ubuntu systems. On > my wife's laptop only the wireless connections are seen (here > and in the neighborhood). The topmost portion, wired networks, > says there aren't any although I have an ether

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, MJang wrote: > I find NetworkManager to be unreliable on Ubuntu -- I've replaced it on my > 10.04 system with wicd. > In addition, the route command on 10.04 is part of the net-tools > package. Seems fundamental in the network troubleshooting process. Mike, For whatever

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread MJang
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 10:02 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > 'route -n' shows no routes. > >Xubuntu does not have a 'route' command. I'm told the usage is > 'inet_route'. However, when I try that it comes back as 'inet_route: command > not found.'

[PLUG] Resolve.conf issue

2010-10-24 Thread William Morita
Group I am running CentOS 5, with current updates I changed ISPs and have not been able to change the name servers using system-control-network. Currently I must manually update resolv.conf to get things working. I have shutdown networking and restarted, I even have rebooted but the changes in sy

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > 'route -n' shows no routes. Xubuntu does not have a 'route' command. I'm told the usage is 'inet_route'. However, when I try that it comes back as 'inet_route: command not found.' When I ask 'find / -name inet_fount' nothing is returned. Help ne

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > What do I do to have the NetworkManager see the wired connection when a > cat5 cable is plugged in and all that interface to be used instead of the > wirelss one? More info: 'lshw -C network' shows the Realtek chip for eth0 and all the other det

[PLUG] Xubuntu-10.4: Network Manager Does Not See Wired Network

2010-10-24 Thread Rich Shepard
I need help from you folks administering Ubuntu systems. On my wife's laptop only the wireless connections are seen (here and in the neighborhood). The topmost portion, wired networks, says there aren't any although I have an ethernet cable connecting the box to the local router. I tried run