problems to activate my ethernet card

[Tom Fernandes]

Hi,

>  > are you using DHCP to get an IP Address?
> 
> yes, through a  router and perfectly running in my little LAN
> 
>  > if so - try running:
>  >
>  > sudo dhclient eth0
>  > on the commandline to see if it works then.
> 
> the result of the command was
> 
> No DHCPOFFERS received
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> (the configuration of /etc/network/interfaces file was:
> 
> mapping hotplug
> 	script grep
> 	map eth0
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp)
> 
> 
>  > if not try running the following command on the commandline:
>  >
>  > sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.20
>  > sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1
>  >
>  > to make your DNS work you will have to put the following line
>  > into /etc/resolv.conf as the first line.
>  >
>  > nameserver 192.168.0.30
>  >
>  > You can edit this file by issuing the command:
>  >
>  > sudo kedit /etc/resolv.conf
>  >
>  > on the commandline
>  >
>  > you have to substitute 192.168.0.20 with your IP Address, 192.168.0.1
>  > with your gateway and 192.168.0.30 with your DNS Server.
> 
> I then tried (after I had disabled dhcp server) with
> 
> sudo ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.202
> sudo route add default gw 10.0.0.2
> 

can you ping 10.0.0.202 after this?


please copy the output of 

/sbin/ifconfig -a

to an email


Tom