Whenever I've been booting up these potatoes, network never works right off the bat when you're using static IPs.   /etc/network/interfaces source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # Wired adapter #1 allow-hotplug eth0 no-auto-down eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.5.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.5.6 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 192.168.5.6 # Local loopback auto lo iface lo inet loopback   I'm able to ping 8.8.8.8 but unable to ping google.com