[Preston] Debian 3.0

[Guy]

John,

I use Debian :-)
The first thing to point out is that Debian does not do as much auto-probing 
for hardware as many Red-Hat based distros do. This does not mean that Debian 
does not support your hardware! So, get root.....

Find out what kernel module you need for your network card. I have a Linksys 
card and it uses the tulip driver. (But find out cos not all Linksys cards 
are the same. If you still have a Redhat partition running /sbin/lsmod will 
list the modules in your kernel)

Then check if the kernel knows your card is on the pci bus:
lspci -v
It should be listed.

You could try 'modprobe tulip' . Or run the 'modconf' program and look in 
kernel/drivers/net for drivers and descriptions.

If you want to load the module at boot time add its name to /etc/modules 
(just add the word 'tulip' or whatever the module turns out to be.)

Network scripts are (mostly) found in /etc/network/interfaces. Here you can 
create settings to 'bring up' an interface at boot time. If you don't want to 
do this use 'ifup eth0' or 'ifdown eth0'
Type 'man interfaces' for more information.

As for sound, the sndconfig program *is* available for Debian but it will not 
be installed as default, try:
apt-get install sndconfig.

Hope this helps!
Regards,
-- 
Guy

On Sunday 17 November 2002 8:39 pm, you wrote:
> I have installed Debian on one of my PC's but it does not seem to have
> detected my PCI Ethernet card (Linksys PCI lne III).... It works fine under
> red hat... I have been trying to find a hardware detection tool like kudzu
> under Debian to try and configure the network card.... Also, I am used to
> /etc/sysconfig/network and network-scripts under redhat but debian seems to
> be different. The other problem I have been having is that under redhat to
> configure sound I run sndconfig... Anybody know the equivalent in Debian?