Re: ...and then add a nic
I am a new newbie and only just got my network to work. I had to add the
/etc/resolve.conf
Cheers Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Majors <jason@kwiqsilver.org>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: ...and then add a nic
> > I have another question about installations. If you install Debian
> > with a network card, a number of files/settings are presumably
> > createds.
> Yup.
> >
> > If you install it with out a nic, I assume that these network specific
> > files and settings are not created. If a nic is subsequently added,
> > then what files are needed to be added by hand to make the machine
> > network ready *apart* from the module for the card itself?
> Nope. They're still created.
> You need to load your ethernet module (add it to /etc/modules or use
> modprobe by hand), then you need to add a section to
/etc/network/interfaces
> for the new interface, then you run 'ifup <interface>', or
> '/etc/init.d/networking [re]start'
>
> see 'man interfaces' for more about the interfaces file layout.
> >
> > Keith
> > --
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > Keith O'Connell
> > Maidstone, Kent (UK)
> > keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk
> >
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