On 24/11/06, Colin Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah > > Samba is right up my alley - just what I need infact. But the trouble I am > having is at the installation stage so cannot get to networking. > > When I try to install ubuntu server edition - it does not recognize any > ethernet device and cannot > automatically configure the computer with DHCP. > > My main query is are the two problems of ethernet and DHCP related? > If this is an inherited machine did you check that the ethernet connection was switched on in bios?
For Ubuntu to not recognise it at all is rare. Very Rare. -- Seek That Thy Might Know -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/