Can't get wired ethernet connection to work

[pbrane]

If you can't get the LED (or link light) to work on the computer or the router you should check the cable. After that make sure the eth0 interface is up.

sudo ifconfig eth0 up in a terminal
do this with the Ethernet cable plugged in. The link and activity lights should be on or blinking when a layer 2 connection is made regardless of whether you can get an IP address.

[ajlinzey]

I right clicked the wireless logo clicked edit connections and deleted the wired profile. there was nothing under the DSL tab. After rebooting there is still no wired connection.

[praseodym]

Lets check

dmesg | egrep 'ssb|b44|eth0'

[noswal]

I just upgraded to 13.10 and had huge connection problems, high latency. Although I probably read it in another post it only dawned on me an hour ago, as the OP wrote in the prior page.

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1

make the nameserver 127.0.1.1 as that is what I found the newer versions use to direct dns