I've spent the past 2 days looking everywhere I can think of for a solution to this. Hopefully someone here will be able to help.

I have a brand new Dell Insprion 530. I installed a clean copy of Kubuntu 9.04. When I try to connect to my network, it fails. After a few hours of poking around, I discovered that ifconfig shows an interesting tidbit: eth0 is not acquiring an inet (IPv4) address. It is acquiring an inet6 (IPv6) address, however.

The NIC is being seen and identified (MAC address is shown), the connection and transmission lights are showing attempts at acctivity. On this last attempt:

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RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

So something is happening. But, as no part of my network is set up to handle IPv6, it's obviously not connecting.

How do I activate IPv4? I can't find anywhere in any setting to do so, nor have I found any information online about this.

Thanks.

IPv4 cannot be disabled. The IPv6 address is likely a placeholder address assigned by your system itself. Unfortunately, I don't know much about *buntu networking, so I can't offer any advice on that. It is possible that the interface was incorrectly configured during the installation.

The issue has been resolved.

It turned out to be a DHCP issue with my router (every other box worked, so I'd (erroneously) ruled that out early in the diagnostics).