Hello!!! I'm a new debian user (just one week ago) and I'm posting again about 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. If it's possible, I'd like to know what are the network configuration files (or I have to use ifconfig if it's better). 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. Some days ago, Andrei answered me and said posting in debian-users list would be better. I'll post this message there too. 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
