re: dial-up to ethernet

["mmissett" <mmissett@cine-med.com>]

Kent,

  The changes you suggested to 
/etc/network/interfaces are definitely not working.  
With the file configured that way, 
"/etc/init.d/networking start" returns "operation 
failed".  So does "ifup eth0".   I should also 
mention that I had never made changes to the 
loopback portion of the file -- I was only quoting 
the portions of the file I *had* modified, so as 
not to try everybody's patience more than I have 
already.  ifconfig shows lo running properly.
  Frankly, I am back to wondering if the kernel 
can deal with DHCP.  I have the idea I might 
have seen something in my researches that 
suggested it might not.  Is that possible?  I think 
it's the 2.2 kernel.  Does that sound right for 
potato?  And can it do DHCP?

Mike