A heads-up for anyone experiencing network connectivity problems. It seems that both the 'testing' and the 'unstable' debian trees are missing the 'dhcpcd' utility. I spent the better part of 5 hours (I am new to this ...) figuring out why I couldn't connect to my cable ISP. Turns out that dhcp wasn't working. It was working just fine until I recently did a apt-get dist-upgrade instead of the normal apt-get upgrade I have been using before. For some reason or other this removed dhcpcd (does a file get removed if it isn't in the distribution tree any more ?). After a LOT of digging (hey, I now know how to set up ethernet connectivity without DHCP) I found the problem - the missing dhcpcd program. I don't know who I should tell about this so it gets fixed in the distribution so I am posting this here.
Jens
