Here is some information I could get:
dmesg output :
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker
Last Modified Nov 1,2000 by Paul Gortmaker
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 40 95 10 c8 dd
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ4
The network my machine is connected to is DHCP, the first time I
installed Woody, it automatically assigned IP address and configured
the
network settings for me.
The pinging just returnes 127.0.0.1
By the way, is there any utility in debian that can be used to
automatically do these stuff, like the one in the Woody Setup