after shifting the whole shooting match into the other room I find that the wired ethernet does not work at all. I have tested the wired connection using my laptop, running Ubuntu, and noted all of the info in the network configuration menus. The same info, except for the mac address, is copied to the new machine and..... nothing. At least the wireless did connect for a while, until the machine falls over bigtime.
The laptop auto eth0 has a mac address in the boxes, I think it was picked up automatically, the new machine does not. Is this something I need to find and enter or should it pick up for itself?
Rans6....