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Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

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Hi, Bob.

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:30:04PM -0700, holtzm@cox.net wrote:
> Clean install of deb8 (jessie)on my Thinkpad T4220i laptop. went well
> except for the fact that the network configuration
> with DCP failed.

This is probably DHCP. That means that the laptop tries to ask in
the local network for an IP address and gets assigned one by the
(local) DHCP server, which these days typically is the internet
router.

Question: is your Thinkpad connected to the local net via a
network cable? Or via WLAN?

Open a console. What is the output of the command

  /sbin/ifconfig

Could you paste it here?

> I was given 3 options.
> 1) try it again. This was hope over experience.

That means it isn't getting an answer to its DHCP requests. Most
probably it doesn't reach the network, but we can't know for sure
yet.

> 2) configure manually. Great if I had the first inkling how. I'm a
> complete neophyte when it
>    comes to networking.
> 3) continue without configuring a network. The only one that would let
> me continue the
>    installation.
> 
> I have a functioning desktop pc so I compred some files w/ the laptop.

Perhaps the output of /sbin/ifconfig on the desktop PC would be
interesting here as well.

regards
- -- tomás
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Unidentified subject! <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-09-29 00:50 +0200
  DHCP failure (was Re: Unidentified subject!) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-29 01:20 +0200
    Re: DHCP failure (was Re: Unidentified subject!) Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 12:10 +0200
  Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified  subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-29 11:40 +0200
    Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified  subject!] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 12:30 +0200
      Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified  subject!] Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-09-29 13:20 +0200
        Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified  subject!] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-29 16:40 +0200
    Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-10-24 00:40 +0200
      Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 11:20 +0200
        Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 12:00 +0200
          Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 12:40 +0200
            Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 13:00 +0200
              Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 13:30 +0200
                Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-25 14:10 +0200
                Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was:  Unidentified subject!] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-25 14:40 +0200

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