On 3/4/2013 8:06 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
"Tim" == Tim Chase <blinux.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:>> if we just connect the network card to the new dsl modem and boot >> up the Linux box, will it load the drivers it may need for that >> hardware automatically? Tim> In theory, it should already have drivers for your network card Tim> and be configured to (1) notice that the network cable has been Tim> plugged in, and (2) default to using DHCP to talk to your Tim> router. Really? I can't think of anything on a console-mode default squeeze install that will do dhcp automatically if network wasn't present during the install.
I'd have said the same thing yesterday at this time. But I pretty much did this very thing with a new install of wheezy and it did exactly the behavior described above. There was nothing in /etc/network/interfaces yet the machine got an IP address via dhcp. Of course, that was wheezy. I haven't tried anything like it in squeeze. I asked around about this magical network connection I'm getting and someone mentioned something called systemd. I never heard of it before. I'm assuming it's new in wheezy but I'm not sure.
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