Re: Try booting the MEPIS CD.
Have a Suse live CD handy - it worked.
OK, back to non-graphical debian.
It tells me my "Link encap:UNSPEC" with a really wierd long MAC address, ending in bunches of zeros.
I then "ip link show" and see "link/ieee1994" for eth0.
Firewire?????
So it does not hjave the motherboard based ethernet configured, and it is assigning the firewire port the IP address.
lspci tells me I have a Marvell Technology Group Yukon Ethernet controller.
On booting Suse it tells me it is a Galileo Technology.
But I get get past that point with Suse, I assume it is trying to go Graphics and then has problems with my nvidia card.
So: I need to figure out how to configure in the chip and stop using the firewire.
What next?