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I have no internet access on my Ubuntu Guest anymore!!! it ALWAYS says "wired Connection Disconnected"!!! and there is NO way of getting it to work again!!! this has done this since the 4.1.16 update!!!

IS NOBODY GOING TO HELP ME? IT HAS BEEN OVER A WEEK AND NO ANSWERS!

If you are unhappy with the level of free technical support provided, then I suggest you buy a support contract from Oracle.

Failing that, we volunteer users help the guys we like, who are the people who ask interesting non-FAQ questions, the ones who don't p***s us off by adopting an unjustified tone of entitlement, and the guys who look like they've made at least a token effort to research the problem themselves.

In your case, you have been warned numerous times about your excessive use of ! and ? punctuation giving your messages a demanding tone. Plus the fact that it's all take take take with no feedback... well frankly that gets kind of tiresome as well. I can't speak for others, but basically yes: I'm tending to ignore you.

Maybe you should ask a better question?
Also your SHOUTING and excessive use of bangs!!!! is probably not helping your cause

You have not provided any details on hat version of Ubuntu, you have not stated how your network is configured and you have not said if you have installed/upgraded guest additions.
You have also not said what happens when you try "sudo ifconfig eth0 up" in a VM terminal.
You have also not said if you see any error messages or anything.
You have also not said what steps you have gone through to try and fix the problem.

I have various version of GNU/Linux on 4.1.16 (my VBox is also upgraded) and they work perfectly, so it is something with your configuration.

If you provide more information in a polite manner, maybe you'll get some help. Try looking at how other people have asked questions.

edit: Great minds mpack, great minds.

justinrpg wrote:IS NOBODY GOING TO HELP ME? IT HAS BEEN OVER A WEEK AND NO ANSWERS!

mpack wrote:In your case, you have been warned numerous times about your excessive use of ! and ? punctuation giving your messages a demanding tone. Plus the fact that it's all take take take with no feedback... well frankly that gets kind of tiresome as well. I can't speak for others, but basically yes: I'm tending to ignore you.

I generally dislike a snotty response from more knowledgeable forum members, but in this case, MPACK IS RIGHT!!! (sorry, couldn't resist). Justinrpg, I looked through some of your recent threads.

In the current thread, you complained of internet disconnects for Ubuntu only (I presume), but five days later,

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49796&p=226734#p226734 on May 31 you noted you had slow guest internet access for all of your guests. Seven days later still, in this thread you mentioned that the disconnects continue, with no response at all about the slow internet. Has the slowness been fixed for the other, non-Ubuntu guests? If so, please post to the thread that the issue is resolved so that the next guy who uses google can find the solution.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49347&p=224548#p224548 About a month ago you said the guests crash after an hour. Perryg tried to work with you. Again, was that resolved? Do your guests still crash after an hour? If it is resolved, please post to the thread that the issue is resolved so that the next guy who uses google can find the solution.

I could go on, but let's talk about the current issue. I am going to assume that the guests no longer crash after an hour and have good connection speed, while only the Ubuntu guest lacks internet connectivity.

Let's start with some basics. How is the guest networking configured? NAT? Bridged? Something else? When the guest starts up, what is the status of its network devices? What does "ifconfig -a" say? Is the guest configured with a static or dynamic IP address? Can the guest access anything on the LAN or is it only lacking internet connectivity? If you trace the route from the guest to an internet host, how far does it get? How does that trace vary from the trace of another guest?

In other words, how much of the internet stack is functioning and where does the breakdown in the stack occur?