I'm new to this forum and this is my first topic here, I want to apologize if I made something wrong, just tell me and I will fix it.
I have a very old laptop HP Compaq 6730s which was running on Windows 7, but I decided to make it a home server running on Linux
and I choose Debian for this purpose because I know that it is the parent of most of Linux distributions.
1. Initially I downloaded https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... etinst.iso and burn a CD from it, expecting to install Debian via LAN network which has internet available (I plugged the LAN cable and the port start to light its lights)
2. Then I restarted the laptop and started the installation when choosing Install
3. Installer start and first it says that there is a non-free firmware that it cannot find - b43/ucode15.fw and b43-open/ucode15.fw. When I did a search I found that this is the wireless driver. Anyway I continue the installation with the thoughts that I will install this driver later.
4. I got error on Base system install step and I decided to continue tomorrow with the installation because it was too late.
5. On the next day Base system install succeed but then failed on Package manager configure step and I saw the LAN port was no more lighting it's lights
6. I thought that even LAN network is not working and I downloaded https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... so.torrent and made a bootable USB stick with https://rufus.akeo.ie/
7. Install from stick succeed and I had Debian as SSH server on my laptop.
THE PROBLEM
LAN Network is not working and I'm not able to make it work till now ...
WHAT I TRIED TO DO TILL NOW
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lspci | grep Ethernet
Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
lscpic | grep Network
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4314 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:63:61:67:70
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)
Interrupt:17
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addre: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
and found one https://www.marvell.com/support/downloa ... Results.do, but a friend of mine that is much better with Linux machines
told me that I don't need any driver and it is already available, he told me to issue command modprobe sky2 and then do service network stop and
service network start
When I did service network stop I got:
Failed to stop network.service: Unit network.service not loaded.
Now he told me that I need to configure my LAN card properly and I read https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration
I went to /etc/network/interfaces I saw initial content of the file was:
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
I added at the end this:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
and when i did reboot I get some errors and then system boots, this is how it looks:
Anyway now I see also the following in ifconfig -a
eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:63:61:67:70
inet addr:169.254.6.230 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:17
Next I try:
ifdown eth0
ifup eth0
Result:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1
Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:22:63:61:67:70
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:22:63:61:67:70
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in database - sleeping.
I tried also configuring the network with static IP - again same results ...
locate network.service is giving no results ...
Thank you for reading so far and will be really thankful to an advice how should I proceed,
I will continue to dig in the web and try different this, hopefully will find a solution
NOTE: LAN cable is tested and is working for sure. LAN port is still not lighting its lights ...
Thank you