Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:31:28AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> My abject apologies for the delay in this reply. just got back in town
> and am just catching up on my email.
No worries. Mail is asyncronous. In my eyes, its biggest asset.
[my whine about missing subject]
> I know but I hit the send key too soon. Sorry.
Happens :-)
[...]
> > > with DCP failed.
> >
> > This is probably DHCP. That means that the laptop tries to ask in
> > the local network for an IP address [...]
> > Question: is your Thinkpad connected to the local net via a
> > network cable? Or via WLAN?
>
> Ethernet cable directly to the modem. No router (yet).
>
> >
> > Open a console. What is the output of the command
>
> > /sbin/ifconfig
> > Could you paste it here?
>
> root@localhost:/home/holtzm# /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:cc:b6:06:8f
> 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)
> Interrupt:20 Memory:f2500000-f2520000
This means that eth0 hasn't an IP address assigned. This is consistent
with DHCP failing. Your laptop sends a DHCP out and expects some answer
(from the "modem" or from the network infrastructure behind it). No
answer came, probably.
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
This is the "local" interface. It's always there. It doesn't correspond
to any hardware. For our quest, you can safely ignore that.
> > > I was given 3 options.
[...]
There is no way forward until we sort out how to assign an IP address
to your interface (be it via DHCP or manually).
Can you describe this "modem" a bit more? It may well be that it isn't
talking regular IP but needs PPPoE[1] (PPP over Ethernet) or some such.
Regards
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPPoE
- -- tomás
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