[wplug] basic ethernet help

[Mark Haney]

Thanks, Alexandros! Your instructions worked. 

Wow, broadband is awesome! I've been using a slow dialup connection from
home, and just an apt-get update takes around 1/2 hour. I do upgrades
overnight, and can usually download around 65MB of debs in one night.
With this LAN connection at school I just did an apt-get update &&
apt-get upgrade that required downloading 126MB of debs, and it took
only a few minutes!

Thanks again for your help.

Mark

> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 19:22, Mark Haney wrote:
> <snip>
> > I think the PC card (Linksys EtherFast Integrated CardBus PC Card) is
> > being recognized and the correct driver loaded. If I do an lsmod
> > command I can see the tulip driver, and if I do an ifconfig -a
> > command I see the eth0 interface.
> 
> Excellent - this means that the network card is recognized and ready to 
> use.
> 
> > How do I set up the networking? Is there somewhere I can look under
> > Windows to get the correct settings? I think Windows is using DHCP,
> > because when I go to Control Panel -> Network and look at the TCP/IP
> > settings of my ethernet card there are no IP addresses specified
> > anywhere that I can see, and there is a box checked that says "Use
> > DHCP for WINS Resolution". Do I need to install some sort of DHCP or
> > ethernet package on Debian for things to work correctly?
> 
> # apt-get update && apt-get install dhcpcd
> 
> Once it's installed, it prints the following information:
> 
> Setting up dhcpcd (1.3.22pl4-17) ...
> 
> To start dhcpcd at boot time you must add lines like
> 
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> 
> to /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> So this is exactly what you must do. As root, edit the 
> file /etc/network/interfaces. It should look similar to this:
> 
> ########/etc/network/interfaces#########
> auto lo eth0
> iface lo inet loopback
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> ########/etc/network/interfaces#########
> 
> On next boot, the machine should broadcast for a DHCP address and get 
> one automagically. Post again with details if it doesn't.
> 
> > Sorry for my cluelessness! This is my first experience with ethernet.
> 
> Hey, we've all been there! :-)
> For more information on what the stuff you just put in that 
> configuration file means:
> $ man interfaces
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> -A
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