Re: Network Setup Help
Donald Perkovich wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I installed Debian 3.0r4 onto a machine yesterday and things seemed to
> go alright. When I started the machine up today, I found I have no
> networking. There are two NICs but no device nodes for them. They
> were there yesterday. One I am not using yet and the other is
> connected to my local network. I want to have this host use dhcp to
> configure itself. Dhcp I understand well enough and could get it
> working if I had an interface to work with.
>
> How do I create and configure /dev/eth0 and /dev/eth1? Or how do I
> get the system to do it?
Run "lspci" to see what chipset is being used by your NICs; then run
"modconf" to install the driver appropriate for that chipset. (Or
"modprobe" to install the driver for just this session.)
Or you can install "discover" to help do the automagic hardware probing.
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Kent West
Technology Support
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