Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!
Faithful John wrote:
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently
>>>>have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants
>>>>to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft).
>>>>Anyway, when I was installing kubuntu off a disc, the network
>>>>connections did not set up properly.
>>>>
>What I'm having trouble with is that since the network is down, I am
>trying to see if I can get it going.
>
>
>The problem is that the stuff I do understand to do (or can sorta
>figure out), doesn't seem to work. And the other stuff, doesn't tell
>me enough to do anything with. I'm a newbie, so telling me to change
>this file to this, without telling me where or how to do so is
>unhelpful.
>
>>Oliver Elphick wrote:
>>
>>>Now type
>>>
>>> ifconfig
>>>
>>>which will show you what network connections there are. There should
>>>always be one called "lo", which is the loopback interface (for the
>>>machine to talk to itself. If that is the only one, you need to set up
>>>the network connection; unfortunately, just what you need to do to
>>>accomplish that depends on what went wrong.
>>>
>>>
>
>So I did that, and this is what I see:
>
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet 6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped :0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped :0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1264 (1.2 KiB) TX bytes:1264 (1.2 KiB)
>
>So I need network connection, right? How do I do that?
>
> Instead, I see [in /etc/network/interfaces]:
>
># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
># and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
># The loopback network interface
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
>#This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
># They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
>mapping hotplug
> script grep
> map eth0
>
>
>
>
>
>>For DHCP, the stanza would like like this:
>>
>>auto eth0
>>iface eth0 inet auto
>>
>>
>>I would suggest using the Debian init script:
>>
>>/etc/init.d/networking restart
>>
>>
>>You might also run "lspci" to make sure the NIC is being identified; if
>>it says "unknown device" or something similar, you may be up a creek
>>without a paddle. Did Kubuntu work with the network when run as a LiveCD
>>rather than as a hard drive installation?
>>
>>
>
>Not sure how to run "lspci"...
>thanks for all the help guys.
>
>
At a command prompt, type "lspci" and then press the Enter key. You'll
see stuff like this:
enjae[westk]:/home/westk> lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P]
System Controller (rev 12)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P]
AGP Bridge
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super
South] (rev 40)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 16)
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 16)
0000:00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 40)
0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX
(rev 20)
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128
PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
Notice that my ethernet controller is a "Lite-On" LNE100TX.
What is yours?
--
Kent
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