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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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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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