> Hi folks, > I have been considering all day how I will ask this. > it is very very important that I get the answer I seek, and with so many > variations, things can shift off the mark if not careful. > going to keep it simple only adding extra detail if necessary. > If one already has an install of debian, in this case squeeze that did > not involve including network access at the time, how does one add the > networking aspect later? > I will have working dsl I trust this weekend. I want the individual > helping me connect my main computer to also inform my Debian machine that > a > network connection exists, letting debian establish the best drivers > etc., for the network. > How specifically is this done?
Chances are that your network card was detected and the correct kernel module is already being loaded. If this is the case and you never touched any network configuration file, and also you dsl provider does not use pppoe but instead plain ethernet with dhcp, then networking will just work when you connect the network cable. If it does not work, please write again to this list including the output of the comands cat /etc/network/interfaces dpkg --status network-manager | grep Status lspci -v dmesg | grep eth0 /sbin/ifconfig and whether your provider uses pppoe or plain ethernet with dhcp. João Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d880a900230b40889dbd9072ff9d726b.squir...@nonada.if.usp.br
