Hello!!! I'm a new debian user (just one week ago) and I'm posting here because I've sent a message in the debian-laptop list and people there told me to post here too. I want to know ways of configuring the network.
I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop Acer Aspire 3002LCI and I'm not able to connect to any other host. When I try pinging a host I get: Destination Host Unreachable. Like my network configuration were set wrong. I just passed the IP, network mask, default gateway and DNS during the installation process. I think I can change them in /etc/network/interfaces. Is there any service I have to start to enable the network card to work fine? I saw some services in /etc/rcS like networking and ifupdown but restarting them didn't work. When I boot the system with the network cable connected to the RJ-45 port comes these messages: Configuring network interfaces...done. eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex But without it: eth0: Media Link Off Also there's a service called MTA that takes too long (about one minute) to initialize and I would like to know what is it for. My lspci (just what is related to network): 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Sillicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02) If there's another command for getting more information I'd like to be aware, then I'd post more information here. I tried using "ifup -a" to read all interfaces again from /etc/network/interfaces but it didn't work, still getting "Destination Host Unreachable". As I said, I'm a new debian user. I have other machines here with Slackware and they work fine, but I want to start learning debian too. Thanks a lot!!! -- Henrique
