Hello, guys. I am quite new in linux so I would appreciate a little bit of help. I have an old Pentium on 200 MHz, which i have to use sometimes. It is with a network adapter SMC EtherEZ (8416). During the Debian installation I left the network settings for later. Then i tried to set the network adapter with pppoeconf, but my computer didn't recognize my adapter. I started "aptitude" and then installed "modconf", which helped me to install a driver for my network adapter. After restart my computer recognized my network adapter. After that I tried programs/system settings/network and there I created a connection using interface eth0. Then I saw that in "/etc/network/interfaces" all my settings were saved. Only I can't find anything about the DNS servers. I set the names of the two DNS servers in "programs/system settings/network". I activated the new connection and really in the window it looks activated. But when I use ifup it gives me message "Network unreachable". Why does it happen? Does anybody have any idea? Is there something i am missing?
Please someone help me start the network.