Re: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

[Pierre Fortin]

By any chance, did you turn off some services...?  I ask because my nephew
turned off loads of stuff on his system "to make it boot faster"...  I don't
recall exactly what was the main culprit; but even the loopback interface was
disabled.

Try "strace ping ..." and see if that gives any clues.

HTH.
Pierre