Re: Intel NIC

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

disciple@exis.net wrote:

> > On Monday 21 June 2004 07:44 am, disciple@exis.net wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Just installed debian 3.0... I'm using an Intel Pro/100 VM NIC. It
> > > did not install for some reason during install. The following came
> > > from a Windows log file:
> > >
> > > I should be able to use modprobe to load driver right? What driver do
> > > I use? How can I find a list of available drivers?
> > >      
> > The file '/etc/network/interfaces' manages your network, (man
> > interfaces).
> > --
> > Greg Madden
> >    
> Thanks... I did modconf and when I do lsmod, I can now see it.  It shows
> as follows:
>
> Module        Size          Used by
> eepro100     14888            0    (unused)
>
> How do I now check to see if it is the correct driver, and how do I go
> about configuring it... (giving it an ip address)?  Why does it say
> (unused)?
>  
As Greg said, "man interfaces". Basically you just edit 
"/etc/network/interfaces", like so:

> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # This entry was created during the Debian installation
> auto eth0
> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address         aaa.bbb.xxx.yyy
>         netmask         255.255.255.0
>         gateway         aaa.bbb.xxx.qqq

--
Kent