Network install switching to ppp access

2001-08-22 Thread mullena
Greetings; I like Debian. I have at home a computer I installed Debian from floppy. And I now connect to the internet via ppp with no problem. Unfortunately the software installation is kind of slow. So for a second computer I found T1/T2 access and after the floppy install I upgraded via the

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-16 Thread mullena
Greetings; I have successfully installed the 8003ep nic. Many thanks to Michael Heldebrant for his moral support, the sharing of which files I may want to look at to determine conflicts, and for his suggestion that sacrificing a brown rooster (rather than the white one I was tying to the alter wi

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-15 Thread mullena
Mike - Thank you for the response. Here we go. I have a hard drive, 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 floppies, 8003ep nic. It's basically a vanilla Dell 486P/50. ;-) >You don't happen to have a soundcard with a midi port around there do >you? What does /proc/ioports /proc/interrupts look like on your system?

8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-14 Thread mullena
Greetings; I have a 8003EP nic in a 32MB/3GB 486/50. I have the base system installed via floppy (no cd). I *could* install more of Debian via ppp. But since I have access to a T1+ line I'd much prefer to install via the network. But I can't get the dang-blamed card configured. I went to www.