Re: two basic "new to Debian" questions: network config & RMS

[Stefan Muthers <grau@tastensuppe.de>]

Hi,
vineyard saker <vineyardsaker@gmail.com> schrieb:
>
> I just completed a switch from 5 years of Mandrake to Debian
> GNU/Linux.  The install went well, although I had to use a couple of
> tricks to configure X and my soundcard.  I now have to basic
> questions:
>
> 1) during my install I was not connected to the Internet (I had
> ordered the 14 Debian CDs from budgetlinuxcds) and I therefore did not

If you got debian 3.1_r0 then your version has a little bug.
Add 
	http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates
to your /etc/apt/sources.list so that you will be able to get security
updates.

> configure my network card.  Now I would like to connect my computer to
> the rest of my computers on a home network.  What would you reccommend
> as the best application to do this?

I would edit /etc/networking/interfaces. Mine looks like this:

  __( '/etc/network/interfaces' )_______________________________________
 /
| # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
| # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
| 
| # The loopback network interface
| auto lo
| iface lo inet loopback
| 
| auto eth0
| iface eth0 inet static
| 	address 192.168.0.3
| 	netmask	255.255.255.0
| 	broadcast 192.168.0.255
| 	gateway	192.168.0.23
 \______________________________________________________________________
 
for more see man interfaces.
And, if you need to load some extra modules, add them to /etc/modules.

Stefan