RC3 missing net-tools package?

[lovingboth]

Ah, that's why the new RC3 install can't see the network

I did have one that had gone 'Beta - RC1 - RC2', but that stopped working after doing some more updates: on booting, it would restart XMBC after a few seconds about five or six times before being stable, so I downloaded RC3 last night.

Hmm, which Rasbian package(s) can be downloaded to fix this? If I put net-tools from packages.debian.org/wheezy/armhf/net-tools/download on a memory stick and use dpkg to install it, the XBMC network setup reckons that the network is 'up' (at least until I try changing anything) but it never acquires an address and if I do..

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(9th Sep, 2014 08:02 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  Try exciting XBMC and using xbian-config, it worked for IriDium.

.. via a keyboard attached to the Pi, it will let me pick whether to use DHCP or a static address, but not set the static address.

Update: installing netcat-openbsd and netcat-traditional doesn't fix things either, but there are no more obvious (to me) missing packages.