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1. Eth0 not working on Debian Wheezy (Martin Moore)


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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:32:35 -0000
From: "Martin Moore" <martinm@it-helps.co.uk>
To: "'Bristol and Bath Linux User Group'" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Eth0 not working on Debian Wheezy
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I've got a new Debian box. It didn't have the Realtek drivers when installed
so used the WLan. When it was running I installed the firmware-realtek pkg.

Trouble is, it no workee!

Any ideas?


Interfaces:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


Restarted Eth0:

$:/etc/network$ sudo ifdown eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/8c:89:a5:a5:4f:60
Sending on LPF/eth0/8c:89:a5:a5:4f:60
Sending on Socket/fallback
martin@Wheezy:/etc/network$ sudo ifup eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/8c:89:a5:a5:4f:60
Sending on LPF/eth0/8c:89:a5:a5:4f:60
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.





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