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Old 12-20-2005
Networking in Debian

I've recently installed the Sarge version of Debian Linux and have run into a problem with it's networking abilities.

I access the internet by cable modem, connected to a linksys broadband router. The router is set up to allow full access to this computer.

When I run dhclient from Debian, it can't even locate the router to be assigned an IP on the network. I get "network not acessable" when I try to ping my router, or any IP for that matter.

I have run different Linux distributions in the past (the "user friendly" beginner level distributions) but this is my first experience with Debian.

To me, it almost seems as if my network card (integrated into the mboard) is not configured properly, although that is only speculation as I really have no idea what is infact going on. The i386 architectures of the other distributions that I have run have all automatically detected and configured my NIC with no problems, and their DHCP clients easily detected a DHCP server.

After hunting, experimenting by trial and error, and running around with a headache for a couple days, I decided I'd see if the community knew anything about this problem. Is there anyone who can offer some advice on the matter?

Many thanks
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gxint - load and run an interactive GEANT application SYNOPSIS
gxint [options] file(s) DESCRIPTION
gxint is a script to load and run a GEANT application, which is usually in the form of Fortran source code. The desired routines are given in file(s). OPTIONS
-d driver Specify a graphics driver. The available options on Linux are X11 and Motif (which should also work with lesstif). X11 is the default. -g geant_version Specify the version of GEANT to use. Current default is 3.21. This option only makes sense if you have installed a GEANT version other than 3.21 (i.e. one not packaged by Debian). -h host Useful with the -d X11 option only. Specifies the hostname used for the display; syntax is identical with that of $DISPLAY. If no hostname is specified, the value of $DISPLAY is used. -l library Specify additional libraries. This option may be repeated to add several libs. -L path Additional loader search path. Useful if additional libraries are specified with -l option. This option may be repeated with more than one pathname. -m Do NOT use main program from cernlib area. -o outputfile Do not immediately run GEANT, but instead produce an executable file named outputfile. If "-o" is not given, the executable file will be created in $HOME, named GEANTpid (pid being the process ID of gxint), and run automatically. -v version Specify version of $CERN_LEVEL. This is meaningless unless you have installed an upstream version of CERNLIB (i.e. not packaged by Debian); see the file /usr/share/doc/cernlib-base/README.Debian. -?, --help Show a summary of options. SEE ALSO
cernlib(1) - script to list required -l and -L options given a list of CERN libraries /usr/share/doc/cernlib-base/README.Debian describes how one might use the -v flag with Debian's versions of the cernlib and gxint scripts if one has an upstream version of CERNLIB installed. CERNLIB documentation for all related libraries and programs is available at the following URL: http://cern.ch/cernlib/ AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). COPYRIGHT
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