Installed Ubuntu over windows vista, now i cant connect over ethernet or wifi. Im running a acer aspire m1100

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Soto Trankiloo

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So i installed ubuntu over my windows vista hard drive, everything went fine until i realized that my ethernet and wifi were not working and couldnt connect to the internet.

Im running on an old but functioning acer aspire m1100 desktop, i hope installing over it didnt deleted the driver and leave me with a box. I lost the recovery cd so i cant go back.

Your help is really appreciated, thanks.
 
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Alabalcho

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You do realize that "installing over Vista" erased completely your Windows installation, don't you?

What Ubuntu version did you install?
From terminal window: When you execute "ifconfig" (without quotes), how many interfaces do you see? Can you see eth0 interface?

Your desktop uses not-so-popular Marvell 88E8056 Gigabit controller, you might want to Google/Bing around for instructions how to add the driver. Or you can buy $10 Realtek PCI-x add-in board, which is natively supported under Linux.
 
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Open "Terminal" window - here is an example of doing that
Once you see the black windows with single "$" prompt at the top, enter "iffconfig", you should see something similar to
luzar@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:d2:1d:9b
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fed2:1d9b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6339 (6.1 KB)
TX bytes:8656 (8.4 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
luzar@ubuntu:~$
Click to expand...
Then - how many interfaces (blocks) do you see?
 
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Soto Trankiloo

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This pops out, I'm now using a wifi usb key to post this, yet I still need my ethernet to work. thanks for replying.

soto@soto-Aspire-M1100:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:25:26:05:d7
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:25ff:fe26:5d7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:2 frame:0
TX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:39673 (39.6 KB)
Interrupt:19

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:5642 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5642 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:555203 (555.2 KB) TX bytes:555203 (555.2 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:d1:44:88:2a
inet addr:192.168.0.109 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:d1ff:fe44:882a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:353514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:193563 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:505323340 (505.3 MB) TX bytes:18708232 (18.7 MB)
 
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So, you have both wired and wireless adapters working under Ubuntu, and your wireless adapter is connected. Use the Network Manager applet in Ubuntu (top right, the icon looks like two up-down arrows, or as WiFi) to configure the wired adapter. Make sure you have cable connected, and that the port LEDs on adapter and router indicate it is connected.
 
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