On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:30:04PM -0700, hol...@cox.net wrote: > Clean install of deb8 (jessie)on my Thinkpad T4220i laptop. went well > except for the fact that the network configuration > with DCP failed. > > I was given 3 options. > 1) try it again. This was hope over experience. > 2) configure manually. Great if I had the first inkling how. I'm a > complete neophyte when it > comes to networking. > 3) continue without configuring a network. The only one that would let > me continue the > installation. > > I have a functioning desktop pc so I compred some files w/ the laptop. > > /etc/networks was identical as was /etc/network/interfaces (from what I > could see) and /etc/NetworkManager. > > I looked at "man interfaces" but quickly got in over my head. > > Multiple installs resulted in the same failure.
Normally, you would have a DHCP server, perhaps included in your router, which would hand out local IP addresses. Possible cause 1: you don't. Possible cause 2: you do, but it is full or configured not to give this machine an IP. Most likely cause: underlying networking is not working right. Ethernet or wifi? What does "ip l" tell you? "ip a", too. -dsr-
