Ok I recently installed etch and eveything was working fine for the past 3 days. Yesterday I rebooted the computer to do some work in windows. When I started debian again my internet connection wasn't found. So, I figured out that my eth0 connection was disable. I went to kde control center
1. Internet & Network
2.Network setting
3 Enable etho
Everything was working fine again. Today after rebooting from windows I seem to have the same problem. I tried doing what I did yesterday but that did not work. When I try to enable eth0 it switches back thus not allowing me to change the setting. I decided to restart the computer agaian and during bootup I saw that some things where failing in startup. I think it said /etc/network/???? I didnt catch this last part. After trying to reset the eth0 once again and having no luck I restart the computer so I could come to the forum. During the shutdown process their were also errors/fail processes which I belive is "up-down"(this could be wrong). I recall seeing something similar in the /etc/network/??? directory. I dont know what is wrong with it. Everything else seems to work fine. I have to use Window to connect to the internet now. Oh I am not on a network.

the file you want to read and edit is /etc/network/interfaces.
if you post your file here, we can see what's wrong.

This is what I got

the-cage:/home/specialist125# ifup eth0
/etc/network/interfaces:20: too few parameters for iface line
ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"

This is the /etc/network/interfaces file


# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping eth0
script grep
map eth0

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface eth1 inet



auto eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp: I think you have to define netmask, network and broadcast address.

iface eth1 inet: you have to define the interface as either static or dhcp.

what is eth1 doing? do you have 2 interfaces?

see 'man interfaces' for details.

ok I dont know if I should but I dont think eth1 is doing anything but I know I need eth0 oh.when Im in kde control center I try to change eth1 but kde crashes. It is set to manual I dont know if it should be this way. I dont know netmask, network and broadcast address.

ok, remove/comment your eth1 line then.

forget the kde control center.
is your network configured with dhcp?
look up the netmask in your windows command prompt. (type ipconfig)
also, check the ip address there and post it.

my interfaces file looks like this:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255


i use a router as a dhcp server.