Re: Installation notes - Debian 2.2
* Angus D Madden (ii@took.ekilat.com) spake thusly:
> Peter Whysall, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:33:35PM +0000:
...
> > Networking configuration. Or the complete and utter absence thereof. For
> > a distro that wants to install off the internet, not detecting,
> > configuring and using an absolutely bog-standard 3Com 3C590 10MBit card
> > is a bit heinous. I had to edit /etc/network/interfaces myself, and the
> > card never did get its module loaded automatically and interface started
> > until I had created a 2.4.18 kernel package. When this was installed, it
> > all Just Worked.
>
> Debian doesn't do autodetection, yet. Someone should have warned you to
> open you box and note what was inside before procedding with the
> install. The lack of auto-detection isn't that big a deal with the
> network card, but is _really_ felt during the X configuration process.
>
> If you had loaded the module for the network card the installer would
> have prompted you for the information to configure
> /etc/network/interfaces
You mean there's a module on install disks nowadays? Last I checked
it was only in udma+reiser or some such.
Dima
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