Hi Scott,
You said:
"To summarize
Time Warner gave you a cable modem (that also works your phone.) You've established that the hardware works, as Windows can get an address...You're not using wireless. (That's what was meant by the question about whether a wire was connected. )"
That's correct. I'd like to use wireless in the future, but for now I'm just trying to connect via TWC.
You asked:
"Question--does Ubuntu definitely see the ethernet card. That is, if you open a terminal (In Ubuntu, I think it's under Applications=>Accessories) and type ifconfig eth0
Does it show something?"
This is the message I got when I typed ifconfig eth0:
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
Sounds like Ubuntu can't read my ethernet card, right?
You said:
"Also, Ubuntu 10.04 has long term support (henceforth known as LTS), but it isn't the newest. The newest theoretically stable version is 10.10 and there's an alpha of the next one coming out...I'd be really curious to know if other distributions worked."
Well, when I downloaded it I thought I was downloading the newest version that had LTS. I knew that there was a newer version, but I thought 10.04 was the newest non-BETA version. I must have misread the site info. As for older versions, yes they worked but I had a different laptop then. It was a Toshiba Satellite, like this one, but it was about 5 years old. I had to get a new laptop because some jerk stole my old one. I think I used Ubuntu 6.1 on that laptop, but uninstalled it because I couldn't figure out how to get wireless to work. The TWC connection was fine, but I had the same luck with wireless on that laptop that I'm having with TWC on this one.
You continued:
"Also, please post the output of lspci |grep -i ether"
I got the following:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
What do you think?
~Kaz
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