I feel your frustration. Typically a wired ethernet connection is an automatic just-do-it affair. As Stephen mentioned, first thing I'd check is link status. On the back of your PC where the ethernet cable plugs in, there should be a steady green light. On your router, there should be a link light, usually on the front. If not, then you're not getting a basic connection, meaning either the cable, ethernet card in the PC or that port on the router is defective. Swap things around til you get that green light ..
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Subject: How to get ethernet connection?
To: "PLUG" <
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Date: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 7:36 PM
What do I need to do to get an ethernet connection?
I have an ethernet connection on two computers plugged in to my motorola
modem/router (there are four ports) but another computer plugged in to one
of the open ports does not get a connection. I can get a wireless
connection on the same computer, but no wired connection.
Under network settings, I see the following:
(*) Automatic IP is checked
( ) Manual configuration is not checked
IP address is grayed out
Netmask is grayed out
Gateway is grayed out
[ ] Get DNS servers from DHCP was checked
but I unchecked it and tried 206.67.222.222 and 220 for DNS servers 1 and 2
(that didn't help)
(*) Allow users to manage the connection is checked
(*) Start the connection at boot is checked
(*) Enable traffic accounting is checked
Under "Advanced" settings: IP settings
Search domains [ (is blank) ]
DHCP client [ dhclient ]
DHCP timeout (in seconds) [ (is blank) ]
[*] Get YP servers from DHCP is checked
[ ] Get NTPD servers from DHCP is blank
DHCP host name [ (is blank) ]
Metric [ 10 ]
MTU [ (is blank) ]
[*] Network Hotplugging is checked
[*] Enable IPv6 to IPv4 tunnel (was blank; I tried checking it)
Why does Linux make all this so convoluted/complex/complicated
instead of pre-setting everything so it all "just works"?
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