[Preston] Debian 3.0

[John]

Thanks Guy,

I will get cracking with your suggestions below....

Cheers

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy" <guy@remember-tomorrow.co.uk>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] Debian 3.0


> 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?
>
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