Re: Adding new hardware after installation
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:49 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> On 10/28/05, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/28/05, Gary <deb@garydjones.mailshell.com> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian ("Sarge"). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front of the thing again feeding it CDs, so if I could avoid doing a complete install that would be nice.
> >
> > On the hardware side of things, just add the network card. If it's
> > supported, hotplug should load the drivers automatically at boot time.
> > Then to configure it just edit /etc/network/interfaces in any text
> > editor. For information on the format, run man 7 interfaces
> >
>
> Er, man 5 interfaces.
Even simpler:
$ man interfaces
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