Let's add a few more steps before you do the rest
does the system have a NIC
is a cable plugged into it and going to the wall/switch
is the link state of the card up or down (e.g. do you see glowing LEDs on the card
now continue with the rest of the questions, heheh
> Does the box have an IP address?
> ifconfig
> Can you ping other boxes on the same subnet?
> ping <some-ip-here>
> Does the box have a default gateway?
> route -n
> Can you ping the gateway?
> ping <gw-ip-here>
> Do you have DNS servers configured?
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> Can you ping hosts by IP on the Internet?
> ping 66.218.71.198
> Is DNS resolving names?
> host yahoo.com
> Can you ping hosts by name on the Internet?
> ping yahoo.com
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