Tell me more ×  I've recently installed ubuntu 12.04 on an old
dell pc, which I'm using as media center. I have an ethernet
cable plugged in from the pc directly to the router.  There's
nothing wrong with the network card as its I can access the pc
from my laptop using Chicken VNC.  My ifconfig looks like this:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0f:1f:59:b1:5e
inet addr:  Bcast:  Mask:           inet6 addr:
fe80::20f:1fff:fe59:b15e/64 Scope:Link           RX
packets:15360 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0           TX
packets:19712 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000            RX bytes:1640979 (1.6
MB)  TX bytes:17863489 (17.8 MB)  lo        Link encap:Local
Loopback             inet addr:  Mask:           inet6 addr:
::1/128 Scope:Host           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436
Metric:1           RX packets:8534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0           TX packets:8534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0           collisions:0 txqueu