No network on Ubuntu [WAS: internet]

[linbaron]

hello

any help here would be appreciated. i installed ubuntu a few days ago and i absolutely cannot get on the internet. without connectivity ubuntu is useless as you cant even do basic things to get it rolling. i have verizon dsl a dlink router with pppoe information on it dhcp working on it and i have a nvidia 430 mobo. any ideas?

[je_fro]

Make sure the appropriate module is loaded with "dmesg | grep eth" in a terminal (console, whatever they call it on ubuntu..)
If information about eth0 is returned, then the module is loaded.
If not, try "modprobe forcedeth" and run the dmesg command again.
Take a look at the output from "ifconfig".
Tell us what you've tried and the results from the above.

[linbaron]

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:58:0E:6C:1B
inet6 addr: fe80::215:58ff:fe0e:6c1b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:180 (180.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:217 Base address:0x8000

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:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:272 (272.0 b) TX bytes:272 (272.0 b)

[linbaron]

in the end i want to be able to connect with my dlink router like i do in windows. any help would be appreciated

[Parcival]

I guess I'm not of much help right now since I don't have access to my Ubuntu system.

However, the driver for your NIC loads correctly, as your output shows, so I would check next if there is a problem with DHCP. I forgot where it exactly is, but in the /etc/ folder there should be a file somewhere that defines how you access your router (be it DHCP or static IP adresses).

Furthermore, I'd also try to ping my router and see what that returns:

ping -c 3 192.168.0.1

[linbaron]

alright cool. this is good so far ill test it out when i can get to my ubutnu box. even when ubutnu is irritating me, the irritation its still more fun and challenging than windows.