On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 14:48, camuflag wrote: > Honourable Sir, > My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, I have been using many versions of Linux > since a long time, such as:Redhat,slackware,suse, but recently, after > having installed over and over Debian 3.0, I found out that I couldn't > hook up with broadband,on account of the ifconfig non-existence in > Debian 3.0. Thus, Iam urging you amiably to troubleshoot this > matter.Nevertheless,I haven't installed the original CDS of Debian's > version 3.0. As a matter of fact, on downloading it from www.debian.org, > is the version 3.0 complete, without feeling the lack of any file, such > as:ifconfig, and so forth. On the other hand, after having installed > this version through a copy from the original one, I noticed that the > non-existence of ifconfig is linked to the own copy made by a company > headquartered in San Paulo, Brazil. In anyway, I shall be awaiting your > response as soon as possible, and thanks a lot for your understanding. I am sorry, Debian is not the "Kitchen Sink" Distribution. You have to select it to be installed. If you want connectivity to you broadband ISP, I would definitely look a bit more before claiming Debian is not complete. Debian is more complete of any Distribution I know of. In fact here look at this: > > king:~# dpkg -S $(which ifconfig) > net-tools: /sbin/ifconfig > king:~# dpkg -L net-tools | grep -v share > /usr/sbin/arp > /sbin/ifconfig > /sbin/nameif > /sbin/plipconfig > /sbin/rarp > /sbin/route > /sbin/slattach > /sbin/ipmaddr > /sbin/iptunnel > /sbin/mii-tool > /bin/netstat I believe you will see that it is indeed there. A better suited Mailing List is: debian-user@lists.debian.org for these end user type of issues. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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