Re: HELP!!!

[urbanyon <urbanyon@urbanyon.com>]

>     Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install,
>     too.

:-)  Can you suggest a better book?  it's nice to have a reference.

>     Try "dmesg | grep eth". Typically your first NIC on a PC will be
called
> "eth0". 

"dmesg" doesn't work.  try something else, or is it something i need to
install?

thanks!!!

-b



On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:21:54PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
> > 
> > i am using a cdrom that came with the book 'learning debian gnu/linux'
> > (oreilly).  various packages that even the book tells i need are not on
> 
>     Ah. What a crappy book. It was my first Debian book, and install, too.
> Note: It is _not_ Debian 2.1. It's a modified copy of Slink, with some Potato
> packages thrown in, and the kernel was modified by VA Linux Systems. 
>     When I tried to enable networking, I got void pointer errors from the
> Kernel and then it panicked. As soon as I got a stock Debian kernel all the
> problems that I was having went away. I'd recommend you replace the kernel on
> the CD ASAP. 
> 
> > 1. is there a program that i can use to set up a 'net connection using my
> > NIC?
> 
>     Not really, but you don't really need one. If your NIC is recognized, you
> can set yourself up with a static IP via ifconfig and route. If your ISP wants
> you to use dhcp, use dhcpcd or pump. 
> 
> > 2. do i need to do anything to check that the NIC is, in fact, installed?
> 
>     Try "dmesg | grep eth". Typically your first NIC on a PC will be called
> "eth0".
> 
> > 3. i've been using apt-get - what should my sources.list file read?
> 
>     This'll do for potato.
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato   main contrib non-free
> 
>     You'd need a working connection of course. For the CD, just use
> 
> deb file:/cdrom stable main contrib
> 
>     Mike
> 
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