Re: network card activation
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 12:36, Ron Bhuyan wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a Debian 3(Woody) newbie. I am having a problem
> getting my hp en1207d ethernet card activated. i installed
> the rtl8139 module during installation but the automatic
> dhcp configuration cannot activate it. i have been using
> mandrake 9.1 before and the card seems to work fine with
> it. i am not from a computer background and switched to
> debian because i hear it is really good. is it possible to
> tell me what i am doing wrong? is it possible for me to fix
> this error or should i just stick to mandrake? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> thanks you
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> Ron
i had the following problems in debian sarge i fixed it this way
i enterd the following lines in /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
then do 'ifup -a'
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