Oliver Elphick wrote: >On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 00:45 -0400, Faithful John wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently >>have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants >>to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft). >>Anyway, when I was installing kubuntu off a disc, the network >>connections did not set up properly. Anyway, I have no connection to >>the internet on that laptop and so I am having lots of trouble >>updating the thing. I don't even have admin access. I know it's a >>bug with KDE, and it's been reported, but I can't make any sense of the advice >>people give. Either it doesn't seem to work, or there isn't enough >>information for a newbie to follow the instructions. >> >>When I try to do something to change the network settings, I can't >>seem to log in as the administrator to do that. I don't even know >>where to start to get it going, especially since I can't get admin >>access. >>Selam >> >> > >To get admin access, you need to log in as root, for which you will need >the root password you set up when asked. > >Since you talk of a bug in KDE, you would probably do better not to use >the graphical screen, so: > >press <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F1> >that should take you out of the graphical screen and display the first >virtual terminal (a black and white screen). If you don't see a login >prompt, press return a couple of times until it appears. > >In response to the login prompt, enter "root" >In response to the password prompt, enter the root password you set up > > I can't say about [K]Ubuntu, but both Knoppix and Kanotix don't have root set up for login. Instead, you have to use "sudo".
I _think_ you can use sudo to change root's password, so that root then becomes available: "sudo passwd root" Faithful John may also be trying to log into X/KDE as root. I believe Kubuntu may be Debian-based, and if so, may have inherited Debian's restrictions concerning logging into X/KDE as root (which is to say, you can't do it in the default setup). F. John may also be trying to use some KDE-ified GUI for tinkering with the network settings. I suggest not using those, and instead using the command-line tools, as Oliver outlines below. >Now type > > ifconfig > >which will show you what network connections there are. There should >always be one called "lo", which is the loopback interface (for the >machine to talk to itself. If that is the only one, you need to set up >the network connection; unfortunately, just what you need to do to >accomplish that depends on what went wrong. > >To start with, you need a stanza in /etc/network/interfaces to describe >the connection. It will look something like this: > >auto eth0 >iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.18 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.1.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > gateway 192.168.1.14 > >The address and gateway addresses and the prefix of network and >broadcast will depend on your local setup. "address" is the address of >the machine you are setting up and "gateway" is the machine that is >connected to the internet. If you want to use DHCP to get an address >automatically, it will be different - sorry, I haven't got an example >here. > > For DHCP, the stanza would like like this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet auto >If you have that, try typing > > ifup eth0 > > I would suggest using the Debian init script: /etc/init.d/networking restart >That may either work or show other errors - see how far you get. > >Oliver Elphick > > You might also run "lspci" to make sure the NIC is being identified; if it says "unknown device" or something similar, you may be up a creek without a paddle. Did Kubuntu work with the network when run as a LiveCD rather than as a hard drive installation? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
