RE: Adding new hardware after installation
Or just type following (if you have the etherconf package installed),
#dpkg-reconfigure etherconf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Donlan [mailto:bdonlan@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:50 AM
> To: Gary
> Cc: debian-user-digest@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Adding new hardware after installation
>
> 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
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