Can't get Ip or browse internet

[jasonmichel]

ok. heres what's happening..i've always been a big fan of linux having used it extensively in the military, came across a really nice looking distro called ubuntu 8.10. i installed it along side Vista on my hp dv7-1170 laptop and dual boot. Worked like a charm found all the drivers for all the hp devices including the webcam bluray etc. so i decided to put ubuntu on exclusively and just run virtualbox ose and put a vista session on there for when i needed it. so i did that no problems, went and installed all the updates. between the time i installed the updates and downloaded and installed a server patch to allow it to use all 4gb ram, i lost my inet connection. which was wireless. so i plugged into cat5 outlet and nothing..just won't get an IP, so i wiped it again and reinstalled. now i still can't get an IP from wireless or eth0. i can manually assign it an ip and it says connected, but still don't get out. Any ideas?

[D-cat]

Could you post the output of lspci -l (lower case 'L'), I'll see if there's any known quirks with your chipset.

[jasonmichel]

it says -l isn't a valid option

[D-cat]

Sorry, my bad, just lspci . I haven't been sleeping well lately.

[jasonmichel]

hey thanks for the response, but i got it working...the problem seemed to be when i was installing Vbox, i tried to manually create a bv0 interface for the virtual guest and that screwed everything up, so i deleted all that and just used NAT for the virtual guest..thanks again