On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:23:10PM -0400, Nicholas Parsons wrote: | Hi all, | | I have a similar problem as Matt. | The only difference with me is that I forgot my ethernet card was smc | and so bypassed the network configuration screen during installation | process of debian. My question is: Do I just have to insmod the correct | ethernet card driver into my running kernel (I'm using 2.2.x kernel) | to setup my network?
Yes. But if you do nothing more, then you'll have to repeat the next
time you reboot.
Create a file in /etc/modutils (eg /etc/modutils/local) and put the
line
alias eth0 smc
(or whatever driver is appropriate) in there and run
update-modules
as root.
| Following this I would need a way to configure
| DHCP so I could connect to net via my cable modem. Is there a script
| that does this setup? Thanks for your help on this in advance :-)
Edit /etc/network/interfaces to have
auto eth0
interface eth0 inet dhcp
and then run 'ifup eth0'.
When the alias (above) is configured right, the kernel will know what
driver to use for 'eth0'.
HTH,
-D
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