Just installed 8.04 alongside win7 on my trusty Asus laptop to run as a local server in my studio. But just going into desktop after install, there are no network devices available. I check System Administration Network and the only object inside Connections is "Point to point connection".
And I'm really not sure what else to do at this point, this is completely new to me and I was following a guide that used 8.04 as an example, which mentions nothing of this unfortunately.
EDIT: I checked inside "Hardware Drivers" and found that no proprietary drivers are in use. Also, pressing "Enable Networking" does nothing.
Thanks.
21 Answer
Ubuntu 8.04 is over 10 years old and went out of service in 2011 for desktops.
If your laptop is more recent it could be using new hardware that is not recognized. Try with a recent and supported Ubuntu version.
A guide that uses 8.04 must be fairly outdated.
