How do you "ipconfig" in ubuntu?

In windows you ipconfig to see your network settings. In ubuntu, what are the steps you take to set up your network?

 

ifconfig for wired network
iwconfig for wireless network with ndiswrapper

 

The tool comparable to Windows's ipconfig in Linux is ifconfig and iwconfig (for wireless extensions). You'd be better off using Network Manager, which is a GUI utility.

- Trip

 

so it's a program I'd hafta download?

Or ndiswrapper is somewhere in ubuntu already?

I already had a hard time finding a way to run something :-X

All I need is something that tells me my ip addy, default gateway, and subnet mask. If I could get those into the system, I could, OMG, connect online.

 

Yeah, look for network manager. Otherwise, use ifconfig within a console. If you need help with the commands for ifconfig, use "man ifconfig" and it'll give you the instructions.

To activate your changes, run ifdown and then ifup. This disables and then enables the network connection. (For instance, if it's a wired connection, you'd go ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0)

- Trip

 

This is magical.

I have my system set up for pppoe, it needs a password...

I can't enter a username and password in linux...

K I'm going nuts here. What repositories do I add to add pppoe?

 

Good help here for a command line approach. You can also "man" those commands to get more info on them.

If you are talking about tripniva's suggestion on the Network Manager, there isn't anything you need to install for Feisty. It's already there.

 

For PPPoE setup, this site has an explanation, but I can't verify how well it will work for you. http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-install-broadband-adsl-pppoe-client-rp-pppoe

You can get the build-essential package from another net connection, or it may be on the installation cd, Im not sure if that applies to Feisty though. But you will need to get that package from another computer, or if you have Windows on the same machine, grab it all from there.

 

so I don't need to web get that package if I get it from another pc and then use a thumbdrive to put it on linux?

Alright... One final question... I know how to add repositories... but I've looked and looked, and for the life of me can't find the two they want me to add >_<

Wait, I get it now. Nevermind.

EDIT: The link they show in that guide is dead BTW, they need to update it :X

 

Okay, now it's asking for a password, something no one EVER MENTIONED BEFORE.

Help me before linux goes in the trash.

 

What's asking you for a password?

And the two repos wouldn't happen to be Universe and Multiverse would they?

Link

 

No, I got it, it was my root directory password. I would've never have gotten that. It just asked for a password, I thought the file was locked :-X.

Um, now that it's been put in my root directory, how do I go about finding it?

sudo chown -R root:root. do I put in root:root exactly, or something else having to with my root directory?

 

"What" is in root now? / is the root directory, or it may be in /home/root.

Tell us what guide you're following, and what step you are up to, then we can help better.

 

http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-install-broadband-adsl-pppoe-client-rp-pppoe

I've done all the steps. How do I get it to work now?

 

Have you tried running the program?

 

Um, yes, and it does nothing.

Doesn't add a pppoe client to my network list, doesn't do a damn thing.

I'm going to do one final thing, switch over to static ip and attempt to connect linux.

If I can't get it to work then, linux is going in the trash.

 

If that doesn't work, try this command.

Code:

sudo pppoeconf

 

Getting nothing but timeouts.

 

I was pretty frustrated initially with ubuntu and WPA in my wireless. I wound up following http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html with success.

Only caveats, Ubuntu already has wireless tools so you don't need to mess with that, and you need to go into the package control utility and add the multiverse or universe repositories or something first. I don't think you need to fiddle with pppoe.

 

It still refuses to connect. I even connected it to my main router.

It connected then, and I downloaded updates, but no connection since.

 

PPPoE is for Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. Usually used so that you can sign into a DSL account. You shouldn't need to deal with it AT ALL for wireless, especially if you have a router. Where did you get this information?

You just need to use the knetworkmanager or networkmanager applet in your tray, which is in by default when you install. If you don't have an Intel 3945/2945 or Atheros wireless card, you probably have a Broadcom based chipset, which means you'll have to install ndiswrapper and then the Windows drivers, because Broadcom cards are crap (even under windows, they don't have full wireless scanning and hopping functionality as compared to other chips)