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Hey! I am a total newbie too.. I installed my
Debian at Xmas time and still mucking around with it. Some advise may come
useful but may not.
When I first installed it no cards were detected and therefore
no modules (drivers as I understand it) for my cards were detected. I
couldn't get the packages (applications) at offer because I couldn't connect to
the Internet. I just down loaded them from my windows machine on the
Internet and burnt them into CD and installed them on my new Linux machine via
the CD as I needed them. (I was going slowly through an on line
manual). When I did some more reading on my network card I found the right
drivers (modules) and got my network working and could ping my windows machine
that was on the Internet. I then got stuck with some configuration and
decided to reloaded again from scratch. What took me 2 months earlier took
me a couple of hours (must have learnt heaps). I had my windows machine
connected to the Internet using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and the
packages down loaded well to my Linux box on the network. Only thing I
still have to do is ping my Linux box from my windows machine under a dos prompt
before my Linux machine will connect to the ftp site. But that's another
story.
My advise to you is find out exactly what cards you have and
what modules (drivers) you need to install during the installation to connect to
the Internet. You should recognise it when you get there because it will
ask you about modules. It will save you a lot of time.
Please note: I have used this List and a newsgroup extensively
and I am a real newbie but if I knew what modules I needed for my cards I would
have saved heaps of time. The Howto's supplied really aren't made for
total newbies or newbies as dumb as me :)
Good luck but I think it has been fun for me and worth the
experience. Just my wife doesn't think so.
Cheers Al
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