Re: need help with net configuration
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:48:15PM -0500, raman narasimhan wrote:
> me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my
> Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL
> broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net
> settings haven't been set. how can we connect his system to the Internet??
> does it need any specific packages??
The net stuff should be there. You need to set up
/etc/network/interfaces. If you look in your file, you'll see what
types of things should be in your friend's. There's a man page on the
interfaces file to help.
Likely, you have an NIC that plugs into the ASDL modem and gets
configured with dhcp.
Doug.
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