On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 09:12:04PM +1100, David Zuccaro wrote:
I don't have an eth0 interface.
do you have an /etc/network/interfaces file? if not, and you have a dhcp server (e.g. on your modem), try making one like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and then run 'ifup -a' if that doesn't work, you probably need the appropriate firmware for your NIC.
depending on your network chipset, you may also need non-free firmware packages installed, e.g. most realtek NICs need the firmware-realtek package
apt was unable to locate firmware-realtek or pppoe
pppoe should be on the install CD/DVD firmware-realtek won't be because it's non-free and there's no non-free stuff on the debian installer (which can make netinst a PITA if you don't know how to make a custom netinst with appropriate firmware). If you're posting here, you obviously have another machine with working net access - you'll have to download it manually from a debian mirror and transfer it via a USB stick or something, then install with dpkg. Are you sure you have a realtek nic? (run 'lspci | grep -i net'). If so, I can email a copy of it to you - the latest version (from sid) firmware-realtek_20151207-1_all.deb is 300KB.
Is there a test package I could install off the cd to make sure that part is working?
what happens when you run 'apt-get update' after configuring your sources.list to use the CD? it should read in the Packages files from the CD. if you still have network urls uncommented, it'll also try to download Packages lists from the net which will take ages for them to time out (so comment them out temporarily until you get networking back up)
i'm not going to sign up for an account with them Do you need to?
i presume so, your URL redirects to a login page. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>