Strange networking woes
Hi all,
I am trying to install Debian Etch on a Pentium III machine. It is
connected to a switch which is connected to a router. Both switch and
router are confirmed to be working perfectly. Debian, however, is
acting strangely with the network.
The machine sees the network hardware. That is, lspci returns the
ethernet controller, and plugging the ethernet cord in and out returns
a message indicating that it was detected. However, pinging anyone
inside the network (including 192.168.1.1 -- the router) returns in
Destination Host Unreachable errors.
Ideally, I'd like the machine to use a static IP address
(192.168.1.154), like my other Etch server, but I would be content
with DHCP if need be. Currently, /etc/network/interfaces says:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Running dhclient eth0 does not work (although ifconfig does show it,
it does not have either inet addr nor inet6 addr in it). Does anyone
have any ideas?
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