Not a problem David, glad i could help :) Ryan Macnish
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:50 PM, David Bowskill <david...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > Thanks very much Ryan, that has fixed it. > My wife has Parkinson's so she must have accidentally hit this icon when > shutting down - it is very close to the shut-down etc icon. Funny enough > this particular icon is not present on my machine on the toolbar top right > hand side. > The same connection editing screen can be reached by > System>Preferences>Network Connections. > Thanks very much again, I have learnt something. > Cheers > David > > > On 20/10/10 15:23, Ryan Macnish wrote: > > Hi David, > > Looking at the ifconfig output there, it appears your wife isn't getting > an IP address assigned to her computer, first i would check her connection > settings, to do this head to the upper right corner of the desktop and you > will see all those icons in the panel, hover your mouse over each one until > you get a tooltip that says something like 'Wired connection 'eth0' active'. > Right click on that icon and select Edit Connections, then select eth0 (or > whichever one she normally connects with) and hit the edit button. Then just > go through and make sure she has the same setting's as you do. Specifically > make sure she is using DHCP automatically. > > Sorry if the above doesn't make complete sense, i try to be as clear as > possible. > > Let us know how it goes. > > Ryan Macnish > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Bowskill <david...@tpg.com.au>wrote: > >> Dear Ubuntu Users >> My wife and I share a four port router and we both are running 10.04 >> My Internet connection is fine but she is now receiving 'unable to >> connect to server' >> >> There is no hardware fault as the machine is dual boot and MSwindows >> connects OK >> I have checked /etc/resolv.conf and that is fine. >> Ran pppoeconf but could not make any sense of the output ( it opened a >> ncurses window, did some scanning and reported on both machines aid on >> both machines that it could not connect - obviously wrong on mine). >> Then ran "ifconfig -a" on both machines the results are as below: >> ******************************* >> Machine NOT connecting: >> >> sim...@simone-computer:~$ ifconfig -a >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:ea:de:1c:47 >> inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fede:1c47/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:1980 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:636 (636.0 B) >> Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd800 <--- not in my file as >> below???? >> >> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host >> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >> RX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >> RX bytes:58073 (58.0 KB) TX bytes:58073 (58.0 KB) >> >> sim...@simone-computer:~$ >> ******************************** >> Machine connecting OK: >> >> da...@djb-p4:~$ ifconfig -a >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ed:5f:47:56 >> inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >> inet6 addr: fe80::220:edff:fe5f:4756/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:14339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:13881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:11667495 (11.6 MB) TX bytes:1505608 (1.5 MB) >> >> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host >> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >> RX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >> RX bytes:24602 (24.6 KB) TX bytes:24602 (24.6 KB) >> >> vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00 <---- not in >> file above, what is this ????? >> inet6 addr: fe80::800:27ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:804 (804.0 B) >> >> da...@djb-p4:~$ ifconfig -a >> *************************** >> >> I have been struggling with this for some time but no joy. >> Help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> David >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-au mailing list >> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >> > >
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