Can't get internet on Ubuntu

[Q]

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 using some option where it installs it like a Vista program. Everything went fine, I boot to Ubuntu, but I don't get an internet connection.

The options when I click Network Connections (or whatever it's called) are all grayed out, and nothing works.

What do I do to fix this? I read something about ndiswrapper, but since I can't get connected to the internet on Ubuntu, how can I do this?

Thanks!

 

[Crusty]

Need more info. What model of card? Do you have a router?

 

[Q]

Yes I have a router Belkin Wireless G

Card: Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)

I have a an HP DV688se
http://search.hp.com/query.htm...n/contact_hp.html&uf=1

 

[Crusty]

SInce you're using wired ethernet I don't see why you need ndiswrapper. What's the output of ifconfig all?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Your wireless card should be working too. Please paste the outputs of "ifconfig -a", "iwconfig", "lspci", and "lsmod" from the Gnome terminal. Its going to be a headache to write all those down and reboot so the easiest way to copy those over would be to pipe the outputs to text files. You can do that by entering the following commands,

ifconfig -a > ~/Desktop/ifconfig.txt
iwconfig > ~/Desktop/iwconfig.txt
lspci > ~/Desktop/lspci.txt
lsmod > ~/Desktop/lsmod.txt

They're on your desktop so now you can drag them onto your windows partition or copy them to a usb drive.

 

[Fallen Kell]

As SleepWalkerX has said, we need to know the output of those commands. We need to figure out exactly what network card you have. Simply saying integrated won't cut it here, but the commands that SleepWalkerX posted should help (particularly the lspci command).

However, that said, judging from the video card being a Nvidia 6150 Go, the Nvidia motherboard chipset which has that card as an integrated graphics card also has an integrated network available, so I would possibly assume that it uses that (since in a laptop, it would be stupid to include yet another chip which takes up more space when the chipset can already perform the required function). So you can try and download the drivers from Nvidia as they provide linux drivers for their chips and graphics cards. You appear to have the NVIDIA nForce Go 430, so go to www.nvidia.com -> "Download Drivers" -> Product Type: "nForce" -> Product Series: "nForce 4 series" -> Product: "nForce 430/GeForce 6150" -> Download Type: "drivers" -> Operating System: "linux32 or linux64" (depending on if you installed a 32 bit or a 64 bit version of linux, which you can determine with the "uname -a" command. If in the output of uname you see a i86-64 or x_64, or something like that, you have the 64 bit version, if you only see i386, i486, i586, i686, etc, you have the 32 bit version). Load that up on the laptop and let us know.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Quintox
I installed Ubuntu 8.10 using some option where it installs it like a Vista program. Everything went fine, I boot to Ubuntu, but I don't get an internet connection.

The options when I click Network Connections (or whatever it's called) are all grayed out, and nothing works.

What do I do to fix this? I read something about ndiswrapper, but since I can't get connected to the internet on Ubuntu, how can I do this?

Thanks!

While you do what they said, might as well try the simple thing also:

Try:
sudo /etc/init.c/networking start

If, for some reason the networking interfaces didn't start on boot up, that will start them (I don't know why this would be the case but its good to check even the simple stuff).

-Kevin