On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Joey Mendez <jmendez at ucsd.edu> wrote: > I appreciate your reply to my email. The steps ou have given me are things > that I have done and are already in place. I still cannot get the eth to > activate unless I issue it a static IP it for some reason will not activate > under the DHCP selection. Has anyone ever experienced this. > > If I do assign it an IP it will activate but still has no internet > connection. I can ping itself but cannot ping any machine outside of it or > have a machine outside be able to ping it. Jose: Two things: (a) please do not TOP POST on this mailing list. (b) I wonder if the NIC is working properly? If it's an onboard NIC, can you disable it and install another NIC, to see if you have connectivity? If it's a PCI card, pull it out and install another NIC, preferably another model. Lanny