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Setup lan connection on Ubuntu

Mar 9, 2011 9:31PM PST

I am using ubuntu 10.10 but I cant connect to my internet using lan. Please help me out.

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Are the IP address and DNS imp too?
Mar 9, 2011 9:35PM PST

I do not know my IP address or my internet connection's DNS address. How can I find those?

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ifconfig
Mar 10, 2011 12:10AM PST

ifconfig and cat /etc/resolv.conf commend if in cli. It should be in GUI somewhere too.

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In terminal?
Mar 10, 2011 12:23AM PST

Do I have to type these two commands in terminal?

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yes
Mar 10, 2011 3:57PM PST

yes

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Typed the ifconfig
Mar 11, 2011 12:57AM PST

I typed the ifconfig command and it displayed three things. eth0,lo and wlan0. What should I do now?

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good
Mar 11, 2011 2:37AM PST

It means your net cards are working well. Wireless and LAN.
But it is hard to tell what is wrong then. You inserted cable and everything is really OK with it?

You can try to manually dhcp it:
sudo dhclient eth0
But this should not be necessary.

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Some more info about my internet
Mar 11, 2011 2:06PM PST

I'll tell you some more things about my internet. After plugging in the lan wire, I have to visit a website and download a software that allows me to connect to the internet after I provide my username and password to it. But that webpage isn't opening on ubuntu.

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Ahh that sounds bad
Mar 12, 2011 9:00PM PST

You should contact your network providers with your issue.
Possible that they are blocking non IE access to their page, that is very bad practice in general. On example mobile phone you want to connect.

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Thanks
Mar 13, 2011 1:10AM PST

Thanks for your help GODhack. I appreciate it.

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Set up a Lan connection in Ubuntu 11.04
Jun 27, 2011 8:29PM PDT

Hi, I am struggling to set up my Lan connection for the internet, I am using Ubuntu 11.04.
How would I go about this from GUI....network tools page?

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from GUI
Jun 28, 2011 1:50AM PDT

It should work automatically.
If not check system network settings. It is simpler than windows just different place.

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Do you really...
Apr 7, 2011 10:02PM PDT

Download a software or just a pop window that allows you to log in. In the same way some WiFi Hot Spots are done. IF that is the case, make sure the Pop Up blocker is activated for that page. If you use Fire Fox, you will see a bar that say block or allow on this site.

Also, you could tray Mandriva One Live CD with KDE desktop. In order to get the IP Address of your machine is as simple as hovering the mouse pointer on the icon next to the clock for the Internet connection. A pop up will come up saying that is active and what IP Address you have on what Network Card.