Re: Newbie problems galore

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:08:14PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> 
> Run "lspci" to see what type of Ethernet device you have, then run 
> "modprobe" to install the correct driver for it. You might then need to 
> modify /etc/network/interfaces (see "man interfaces" for examples) and 
> restart networking (/etc/init.d/networking stop && 
> /etc/init.d/networking start).

An alternative: Installing "discover" would probably "discover" your
network interface and install the correct module for it.  Or even
installing "etherconf".

Regards
Johann
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