a couple of days ago, when booting into Debian, I could not get a
DHCP-offer, so the network was not brought up.
I assigned an address that was not in use via ifconfig, and tried a
couple of pings.
Pinging a system in the same subnet succeeded, but pinging the gateway
failed.
IP: 10.40.0.61
ping 10.40.0.85: OK
ping 10.40.3.254: failed
I put in a pci-network-card, but the results are the same, whether I
disable the built in NIC or not.
So, something on the motherboard is broken again, or something on the
net doesn't like me to use Linux on that system (the one I'm sending
this from is a Debian system on the same network but with a very up to
date kernel that I configured myself, the broken system uses Debian's
kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686), and locks me out permanently.