no network connection with Wheezy

[Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>]

From: Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: no network connection with Wheezy

I installed Wheezy (testing) with a netinst CD, at which point it obviously
had a network connection.  On booting, though, it does not.  If I transfer
the Ethernet cable to the adjacent Lenny machine, the connection is fine.  I
know the following:

/etc/network/interfaces, /etc/inetd.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf are the same
on the two machines.

In /etc/init.d, Lenny lists networking, openbsd-inetd, and xinetd.  Lenny is
running this process:
  /usr/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid -stayalive -inetd_compat \
   -inetd_ipv6
In /etc/init.d, Wheezy lists networking and openbsd-inetd but not xinetd.
Wheezy is running this process:
  /usr/sbin/inetd

I can ping a local site from Lenny, but Wheezy gives "Network is
unreachable".

On Wheezy, ifconfig -a (see below) shows no addresses for IP, broadcast, or
mask.  I chose eth1 (a free-standing NIC) during the install because it
succeeded.  eth0 (an onboard NIC) caused a DHCP failure during the install.

Any ideas how to get the network connection running?  Thanks.


------------------ output of ifconfig -a ---------------------------

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 70:71:bc:e2:f1:c8
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Memory:fe500000-fe520000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0e:0c:bc:a5:cc
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:29741 (29.0 KiB)  TX bytes:29741 (29.0 KiB)