debian ?

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

heh....well. I think I needed to pay a little more attention to the installer :)

I ran through it again and this time actually went into the sub-menu to set up the networking and, voila, it works....

man.....long day.....


thanks for the help anyways though



Ben Pfaff extolled:
> "Daniel R . Kilbourne" <drk@voyager.net> writes:
> 
> > how do I set up my networking with Debian? (I believe
> > the NIC is a 3COM which worked flawlessly under
> > RedHat/Win2k/FreeBSD). Any hints?
> 
> The first trick is to get the module loaded, if it's not built
> into the kernel.  You can do that with `modprobe 3c59x' if it's a
> 3c950 or 3c590 or something like that.  Once you know the module
> name, add it to /etc/modules so it gets loaded on boot.
> 
> The second step is to set up /etc/network/interfaces so that the
> interface is configured properly.  This has a section for each
> network interface and a line that says which of them should be
> automatically started at boot.  Here's mine, and it should be
> pretty self-explanatory:
> 
>     # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
> 
>     auto lo
>     iface lo inet loopback
> 
>     iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 	    up /etc/init.d/ntpdate start
> 
>     iface eth1 inet static
> 	    address 192.168.128.2
> 	    netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
>     iface ppp0 inet ppp
> 	    provider provider
> 
> See also interfaces(5).  Besides the `auto' interfaces that are
> brought up at boot, you can manually bring them up/take them down
> with ifup(8) and ifdown(8).
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
daniel.kilbourne@corecomm.com
CoreComm Systems Engineering
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