On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Giving the output is not an easy task, as the computer I am installing > on has a USB floppy (the Celvin is a kind of iMac for the PC world) and > hopefully will work when I get Debian installed. As the network isn't > working either, I can't send it as a text file to another box on my heh... > Link encaps:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:67:06:4F:86 > Broadcast Multicast MTU 1500 Metric:1 but you don't have an ip address. this means your kernel see the device and configured it, but dhcp isn't coming through. do you have lines in /etc/network/interfaces that say something like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp ? also, if this is on a private lan, how about statically assigning an ip address to your card[1]? this problem might be signs of a completely different problem (like faulty cable or connecter or card), or it might just be dhcp being flaky for some reason. hth sean [1] for example: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99
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