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Internet not connecting, help

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So I installed Debian on my Dell laptop and during installation, I believe it connected to the internet fine through an ethernet cable, but when I try to use it normally now it doesn’t work.  I’ve tried editing the interfaces file in vi but I can’t get it to work.  I’m really just stuck and any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  If you need more info on the problem, ask away.

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gouch [ Editor ]

Check if you have network-manager package installed (e.g. command "dpkg -L network-manager"). If so internet is supposed to “just work” & it normally doesn’t use the usual config files (most ethernet cards need no special config). If you have got Network Manager, (don’t try to uninstall it, or you might bork your system) have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager  for a start. Don’t despair…
 

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andreimpopescu

Please post content of /etc/network/interfaces and the output of ‘ifconfig -a’

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c0smic141
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/ect/network/interfaces has this in it=


The loopback network interface

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


And the output is= eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3f:ef:6c:cb

     BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
     RX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
     RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)</code><br />

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

     inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
     inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
     UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
     RX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
     RX bytes:18053 (17.6 KiB)  TX bytes:18053 (17.6 KiB)</code>
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