chris9872
February 22nd, 2016, 07:11 PM
Dear Experts
I should be grateful for your help with getting Lubuntu 15.4 (version 219) online. It is on live CD, and the computer is called
Hewlett Packard Pavilion desktop a.808.uk
This connects via an ethernet cable to a cable modem called
Motorola Surfboard 5100i
which in turn connects to a length of coax, as supplied by my broadband provider. The HP machine was bought about 8 years ago, as I remember. Windows 7 has replaced the pre-installed XP. Using boot options noapic/nolapic/nomodeset gets me as far as the purple desktop. But there is a whirligig churning away endlessly, on the taskbar where the network icon should be. Opening a terminal window to type
sudo service network-manager start
has no effect.
And typing
sudo service network-manager restart
yields the message
disconnected you are now offline.
Is all of this symptomatic of a missing driver? If I unplug the ethernet cable from the HP, and connect it to my new Windows 10 machine, I can get online without difficulty. Like right this minute for example. There isn't a problem with the network itself.
I should be grateful for your help with getting Lubuntu 15.4 (version 219) online. It is on live CD, and the computer is called
Hewlett Packard Pavilion desktop a.808.uk
This connects via an ethernet cable to a cable modem called
Motorola Surfboard 5100i
which in turn connects to a length of coax, as supplied by my broadband provider. The HP machine was bought about 8 years ago, as I remember. Windows 7 has replaced the pre-installed XP. Using boot options noapic/nolapic/nomodeset gets me as far as the purple desktop. But there is a whirligig churning away endlessly, on the taskbar where the network icon should be. Opening a terminal window to type
sudo service network-manager start
has no effect.
And typing
sudo service network-manager restart
yields the message
disconnected you are now offline.
Is all of this symptomatic of a missing driver? If I unplug the ethernet cable from the HP, and connect it to my new Windows 10 machine, I can get online without difficulty. Like right this minute for example. There isn't a problem with the network itself.