Re: HELP!!!

[urbanyon <urbanyon@urbanyon.com>]

sorry about the last message - "dmesg" does work, but i don't see the
ethernet card.  what to do?

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, urbanyon wrote:

> 
> >     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
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>
> > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
> > of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
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> > 
> 
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