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MetSol

Could someone please len a hand? I'm stuck in New Zealand for work purposes and I can't get my hotel internet connection up and running...

Your help would be much appreciated. I'm running KK on a EeePC. It has internal ethernet. The motel has a high speed ethernet connection but I can't get it to work. Every other time I've been using wireless at home and it seems to just work. Can someone please give me some instruction? I am very limited for time so I apologise for not figuring it out myself. I just don't have the time. Thanks...

Posted Mar 30, 2010, 12:09 AM UTC

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Deusdies•

Try Wicd (instead of network-manager) - http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

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MetSolOP•

Cheers mate!

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UnknownHours•

Have you called the front desk and asked about it? They might know something about it.

You're trying to use ethernet (wired connection) right?

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MetSolOP•

I had another fiddle with it and I can send and receive packets from the host. I have the broadcast address, the subnet mask and various other info that I don't really understand anyway. KK is Karmic Koala Ubuntu. I'm sorry for my ignorance, I simply have not had a problem with it before as I use wireless and it basically was plug and play. I am out of my league with this wired connection and I simply don't have the time to play with it as I am working long hours in a country I'm not familiar with. Thanks anyway.

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puffybaba•

If you're still there, try

sudo dhclient eth0
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MetSolOP•

Thanks for helping out.

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bigsquish•

I know this is 9 days old, but don't you southern hemisphere people use PPPOE or something? I ran into that once while I was traveling, had to run: pppoeconf

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MetSolOP•

Thanks anyway mate. I'm back in Oz where shit works now!

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alphabeat•

I'm going to guess Karmic Koala.

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