Excuse me for any newbie mistakes I'm making, this is my first time running any Linux distro. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 off a live USB drive on a Dell Vostro 2510. If I plug an Ethernet cable in, it doesn't show up under network. The cable and connection work fine on other computers, so I'm thinking it's the OS not detecting the port on the computer. The same thing happens with WiFi, the OS doesn't detect the laptop's WiFi adapter.
I've tried disabling and reenabling networking from the taskbar. Here's a screenshot with my network settings:
Here's what I get from ifconfig:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:4852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:358752 (358.7 KB) TX bytes:358752 (358.7 KB)
I'm left with no way to access the Internet on that machine. How can I fix this?
Best Answer
Can you see on taskbar the wifi icon? If yes, click on it & ensure 'Enable Networking' & Enable Wi-Fi is checked. Try this first. Hope it'll helps.
Start Adding your Ethernet first & set all to automatic settings to see how it works.
Click Add button to adding new network
Select Ethernet & click Create
Checked the box as in picture
Key in device address(open terminal, type ifconfig & see HWaddr) set to Automatic & checked Default
Leave the rest & click Save. See how it works!