[olug] drivers

[enderandrew at gmail.com]

In openSUSE it is actually dhcdpcd, but like I said, it seems to vary from  
distro to distro.

-- TJ

On Feb 5, 2010 9:29am, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you mean to say dhcpd? As I recall, dhcpd is the server, the one

> that gives out dhcp addresses. dhclient is the process that runs on

> the end-user's computer.



> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 09:01, TJ Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Are you saying neither of them will work?

> >

> > Every once in while, the NetworkManager won't autoconfigure them, and

> > you have to manually configure them. You could try opening a terminal,

> > and then typing:

> >

> > ifconfig eth0 up

> > dhcpcd eth0

> >

> > This is assuming that your wired card shows up as eth0, but it should.

> >

> > I'm an openSUSE guy, but I'm assuming Ubuntu has dhcpcd installed.

> > I've seen some distros use different dhcp tools.

> >

> > You might want to look through lsmod and dmesg to see if the drivers

> > aren't loading correctly.

> >

> > And I hate to ask the stupid question, but shouldn't you be putting on

> > the latest Ubuntu, which should be 9.10? Or maybe even an alpha build

> > of 10.4? I believe there are nightly builds of Ubuntu available.

> >

> > -- TJ

> >

> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:08 AM, adam davis radamdavis at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >> hi

> >>

> >> I just bought a asus Eee pc netbook. I tried putting Ubuntu 9.04 on  
> it. But the wireless or the wired nic will work.

> >>

> >> Does anyone have a suggestion for this problem?

> >>

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