Re: no network connection

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

Ed Sutter wrote:
> Hi,
> I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days.
> Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is
> resolved.  Next (and hopefully last) problem is that
> each time I boot the system I have to manually enable
> my network connection.  When Gnome starts up, I see in
> the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with
> a big NOT sign  (red circle with a slash
> through it) over top of it.  I right-click on that and
> a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network.
> Then everything is fine.
>
> How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically?
> Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI.
>
> Thanks
> Ed
Hi:
   You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces

which should have something like:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0


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try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your 
wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you 
are using dhcp.


man interfaces will give you more information.

Sebastian Canagaratna