-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Bob.
Welcome. First, a meta-suggestions Try to use a good subject line (I tried to modify it). This list is read by many volunteers, and is pretty high volume. Nobody reads everything. A good subject line will make it more probable that your mail is picked up by someone knowledgeable in the subject matter. Comments interleaved in your main text 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. This is probably DHCP. That means that the laptop tries to ask in the local network for an IP address and gets assigned one by the (local) DHCP server, which these days typically is the internet router. Question: is your Thinkpad connected to the local net via a network cable? Or via WLAN? Open a console. What is the output of the command /sbin/ifconfig Could you paste it here? > I was given 3 options. > 1) try it again. This was hope over experience. That means it isn't getting an answer to its DHCP requests. Most probably it doesn't reach the network, but we can't know for sure yet. > 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. Perhaps the output of /sbin/ifconfig on the desktop PC would be interesting here as well. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlfs33AACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaSVQCeOMutYMTYLp0r+z9qGZelbKSz i1AAn0hgP1UAgqGabtTPdDaWHPizpYiI =2AIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
