Re: Can't get network to work

From: Dave Ewart (davee_at_sungate.co.uk)
Date: 11/30/04

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    On Tuesday, 30.11.2004 at 04:27 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:

    > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 01:58 -0800, Michelle wrote:
    > > Hi all, I'm a complete debian newbie; I decided to delete my slack
    > > distro and install deb instead because of all the rave reviews, but the
    > > rewards have yet to materialize. Deb is more "hard core" (and therefore
    > > presumably better) than slack, as evidenced by how hard it is to set up!
    > >
    > > Problem:
    > > On a fresh install of Debian 3.0r3 Woody (2.2.20-idepci kernel) off the
    > > .iso from the server, the neworking doesn't work. I'm on an AMD Athlon
    > > with a 21140-based on-board ethernet chip (lspci and WinXP both say so)
    > >
    > > The story:
    > > During installation, it was able to connect to the network just fine and
    > > download updates and stuff. Just to make sure, I opened a terminal
    > > during install and pinged google. SO I KNOW IT CAN WORK.
    > >
    > > HOWEVER, after booting, eth0 is only configured for a 192.168 address,
    > > NOT what the dhcp in my dsl modem should be giving it. I run ifup eth0
    > > and I get a series of "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device" errors. Ditto if I
    > > run dhclient directly.
    >
    > What does your /etc/network/interfaces look like? It should
    > contain:
    > auto lo
    > iface lo inet loopback
    > auto eth0
    > iface eth0 inet dhcp

    If you are sure that the correct module is being loaded for your
    hardware, you may like to try installing (or dpkg-reconfigure) the
    package etherconf, which give you a friendly frontend to configuring
    your network. It populates all the important files (such as
    /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hosts etc.). Very useful:

    apt-get install etherconf

    or

    dpkg-reconfigure etherconf

    Dave.
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