[Discuss] networking problem

[Bill Horne]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 11:23 -0500, j. daniel moylan wrote:
> i've recently installed ubuntu 10.10 on my asus eee pc 1005ha.  it gave me
> warning messages on bootup:
> 
>   waiting for network configuration
>   waiting  up to 60 more sec for network configuration
>   booting system without full network configuration
> 
> sure enough, the builtin wireless n didn;t come up.  i tried the
> networkmanager icon, and that came up with the first four lines light
> grey.  perservering, i punched the bottom line "edit connections", did
> that, and saved it but no network came up. i tried /etc/init.d/networking
> restart and that indeed brought up the network 192.168.0.103 as shown by
> ifconfig.  however that issued a warning that the command was deprecated
> and that everything might not come up (but no mention of the favored
> command).  none the less, things seemed to work fine -- the browser
> connected as desired, mutt worked and i was happy though i needed to do the
> init.d thing each time i booted.
> 
> today, i was able to bring up 192.168.0.103, but only locally. i can ping
> 192.168.0.1 but can't seem to get out past the local net.  firefox doesn't
> connect out and email doesn't work.
> 
> any suggestions would be warmly appreciated.

Dan,

Check your routing table: you may need to add a default route. 

Also, verify that /etc/resolv.conf has the correct IP addresses for the
nameservers you're able to reach on your network. 

HTH.

Bill