Ubuntu Gutsy Internet Help

Posted by extradudeguy on Oct 25, 2007 8:56 AM EDT
Lockergnome Linux Fanatics; By Matt Hartley
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So you just upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy and you cannot get the Internet to work? You appear to have a LAN connection or Network-Manager is allowing you to connect to your access point, yet when you type in http://www.google.com, the domain will not resolve - it just keeps reading ‘connecting’. Why? Use of Gutsy’s own implementation of ipv6 - 99% of the time.

So you just upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy and you cannot get the Internet to work? You appear to have a LAN connection or Network-Manager is allowing you to connect to your access point, yet when you type in http://www.google.com, the domain will not resolve - it just keeps reading ‘connecting’. Why? Use of Gutsy’s own implementation of ipv6 - 99% of the time.

Yeah great, so how about a working connection!

Because most of you could care less why it’s not working, let’s look at getting it working again, shall we? First, because this is about ipv6 issues, let’s make sure this is the problem. Run this from a terminal window...

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