Ubuntu 8.04 Beta -- performing a networking exorcism

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Mar 31, 2008 11:16 PM EDT
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I've already written most of my Ubuntu 8.04 beta review, which I'm holding onto for the time being. I don't usually run -- or review -- beta releases, but this time I'm making an exception because a) most Ubuntu releases are hotly anticipated and b) Ubuntu's second-ever long-term-support release is a huge deal for me as a big fan of releases that have lives longer than the standard six months to a year. I ran into a problem starting Friday. I couldn't get any updates from the Update Manager. I then ran Firefox and discovered that my networking was dead. I hadn't changed anything, but I couldn't even ping anything on the local network. I checked my static IP information in Network Settings. It all looked fine.

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