Hi, Thanks for the replies. I'm running a standard Debian environment, but it was preloaded, so I might give this another format and go. I have a BT Homehub 2A and and a quick mental count has about 20 devices working off it all fine (yes the dhcp scope range is big enough to take them all), so is j...

Thank you all. I've run a voltmeter across T1 and T2 and it is just over 5v, even though the keyboard is still playing up. The keyboard behaves itself if I use the top USB port though. From a network perspective, it refuses to pick up a dhcp address and I can see in the logs that its requesting a dh...

Thank you, I'll do that. From this: "If you are plugging the Pi into a hub, with other devices, that could be the problem, if the powered hub can't supply enough voltage. I had that problem with the Pi that I use as a desktop. By plugging the Pi into another (different) power source, the problem wen...

Ps. Forget to say that the 10MB light is yellow, but the next two led's are green (one being link from memory).

Hi, Thanks, I very much appreciate all the replies. It's quite embarrassing not being able to get this to work having a first class computer science degree and also working at one of the top global IT companies. :oops: From the above, do I type 'mydomain', or do I need to replace with a local DNS as...

Update. Tried a blackberry charger rated at 750ma, 5v, plus the apple iPhone 5w charger and all have the same issue. Since I've been using the system today, I've noticed that something strange is going on with the keyboard very regularly. For example, 'cartridge returns' appears at the prompt, even ...

Hi, Sorry to be more specific, I made a typo when posting on the forum, but not on the pi. My dhcp server is definitely not configured to provide up addresses to known macs, and is 100% a problem with the pi, so will try the package as suggested above to troubleshoot and also see if this distributio...

Thanks for the information.

Reference the subnet, yes you're right, I made a typo.

I entered:

192.168.199

I should have typed:

192.168.1.199

....When posting on this forum.

I have used the right network subnet (192.168.1.199) on the Pi.

Thank you both. I'm inclined to think it's the power supply rather than the local set up, because I can't even ping local hosts on the direct subnet. And the dhcp refuses to work. I did add a default gateway, but that wouldn't make any difference locally, however thank you for the full local static ...

Hi, I'm experienced with networks and computing, apart from very limited Linux/Unix skills. The new Raspberry has been plugged in today and everything seems fine except it won't pick up an IP address. I have other devices that pick up IP addresses (connected into the same hub) fine and have swapped ...