[NTLUG:Discuss] Getting eth0 working with Kubuntu--- more info...Evolution question.

[Wayne Dahl]

Rick Cook wrote:

>On Monday 30 January 2006 18:31, Wayne Dahl wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 12:11, joseph beasley wrote:
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>>>Verify that you have a default gateway.  The latest version of
>>>ubuntu/kubuntu does not save the default gateway.  (netstat -rn will
>>>show the routes.)
>>>
>>>Yes, I know you put the gateway in, but verify that it is there.
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>>This was it.  Checking with netstat showed no gateway.  I manually put
>>it back in again with "route add default gw 192.168.1.100" and here's
>>the funny part.  I'm so used to stopping and starting a service after
>>making a configuration change, I did a ifdown eth0 followed by an ifup
>>eth0, no change in internet access.  Checking with netstat again showed
>>no gateway.  I added that gateway again, checked with netstat, now it's
>>there.  Apparently, under Kubuntu, if you ifdown/up the nic card, it
>>forgets the route.  Without cycling the nic card, I just checked it with
>>netstat showing the gateway there and lo and behold, I now have internet
>>access.
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>>Now comes the big question.  How do I make it permanent so I don't have
>>to jump through this hoop every time I turn on this machine?  I have
>>seen no documentation speaking to this "bug" anywhere...and you'd think
>>if the latest versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu don't save the default gateway,
>>you'd have a heck of a lot of questions about it.
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>If Kubuntu/Ubuntu keep this part of their Debian heritage, you can add a 
>gateway directive to the appropriate ethernet device stanza 
>in /etc/network/interfaces. For instance, one of my machines at home has this 
>"eth0" stanza:
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>auto eth0
>iface eth0 inet static
>        address 192.168.2.10
>        netmask 255.255.255.0
>        gateway 192.168.2.1
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That did it.  I added the gateway address to the /etc/network/interfaces
file for eth0 and rebooted my machine.  It woiks!   Thanks, Rick...that
was driving me CRAZY!!

btw, I'm now using Thunderbird for email.  I really liked Evolution
until they started calling a spamassassin client for EVERY friggin'
email.  What should take maybe 30 seconds to download took 10 minutes. 
It started doing that with version 2.2 (?) if I remember correctly and
was just driving me crazy.  The "fixes" I'd read about said to deselect
spam filtering in the options menu, which I did, but it didn't help. 
Every time I'd start Evolution, I'd have to go to a console window, do
ps ax, look for the spamd evolution called up, kill it (because it was
calling up like 5 or 6 spam clients for every email) and still it would
call up a spamc for every email and take forever.  Since it doesn't
appear Ximian is going to change that any time soon, I've just given up
on it and gone to Thunderbird.  Anyone have a different take on the
Evolution/spam filtering thing?

Thanks again,

Wayne