[ubuntunewbie]

Weird issue came up a few days ago after I updated my ubuntu distro to Feisty Fawn. My PIII machine can be pinged up until the Ubuntu login screen shows up. While it is loading, there is a part where it is pingable; but once the login screen is shown, the machine is unpingable. At login, I get the Network icon saying that there is "no network connection". This is a new issue and only occurred once I upgraded to Feisty Fawn from the previous distro.

I tried running dhclient as suggested, and it worked -- I was able to obtain a network address from my router. The Network icon still says "no network connection", but I am now able to be pinged by another machine on the network and can surf the net and run other network apps.

Any ideas what caused this and how I can permanently get rid of this (without adding dhclient to my login scripts).

Thanks!

[tomdkat]

Boot your machine normally and once the desktop appears, open a terminal window and issue the "dmesg" command and post the output here, if you can.

Peace...