Unable to bring up eth0 in debian sarge

[feverdream]

I'm new to linux, after a lot of struggle installation was completed. Now, I'm facing a new proble which I'm unable to solve. During boot-up it throws an error that 'unable to bring up eth0'. When I try to activate it manually, the same error is thrown.
There is nothing wrong with my network, as I'm able to access internet in Windows. Any help greatly appreciated.

thanks.

[objuan]

Hi
is the eth0 interface configured
in an editor like vim edit /etc/network/interfaces
when sarge sets up and it does not detect the network manually configure
the interfaces. here is an exsample that will work using a cheap router like linksys or the wise you will need the ip info from your carrier.
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.66
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservers 216.158.128.25 216.158.128.26
dns-search primenetwork.net

[feverdream]

Hi
is the eth0 interface configured
in an editor like vim edit /etc/network/interfaces
when sarge sets up and it does not detect the network manually configure
the interfaces. here is an exsample that will work using a cheap router like linksys or the wise you will need the ip info from your carrier.
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.66
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservers 216.158.128.25 216.158.128.26
dns-search primenetwork.net

Above parameters were already set in the interfaces, but it doesn't work. Someone asked me to post the result of 'ifupeth0', I'm getting following result for it

ifup eth0
SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable
Failed to bring up eth0

When I do ifconfig, I get following output

eth0
link encap: ethernet Hwadrr 00:15:C5:20:92;3D
inet addr:125.99.246.154 Bcast: 125.99.247.255 mask 255.255.254.0
UP 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 frame:0
Collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0(0.0b) TX bytes:0(0.0b)
Interrupt:4

Lo
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX Packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7340(7.1KiB) Tx bytes:7340(7.1KiB)

Some body please help.

[objuan]

Sorry to take so long to reply in your /etc/network/interfaces file is the gateway set should be 125.99.246.1

[feverdream]

Sorry to take so long to reply in your /etc/network/interfaces file is the gateway set should be 125.99.246.1

thanks for the reply. How can you say gateway should be 12.99.246.1, because gateway given to me by my provider is is not that. In my interfaces I set correct gateway only.

[iwanabeguru]

as root
>#route add gw default ip_of_gateway

[feverdream]

as root
>#route add gw default ip_of_gateway

when I enter the above mentioned, I got following result

gw: Host name lookup failure

Also, I noticed that I'm getting following error during OS bootup

b44: eth0 Bug! timeout waiting for bt 80000000 of register 428 to clear

thanks.

[objuan]

Edit the /etc/network/interfaces
and add the gateway provided by your provider.

[feverdream]

Edit the /etc/network/interfaces
and add the gateway provided by your provider.

I set correct gateway, but still unable to make it work. Any more ideas?

thanks for your time and effort.

[eraker]

Have you tried it with dhcp?
If not, you can comment out the static stuff already tried (instead of just deleting, put hash marks in front of it: "#") and make your /etc/network/interfaces file look like this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

As long as you have a dhcp client installed, it should work fine (it always worked for me, anyway). After you edit your 'interfaces' file, try it again.