Karen,
If I remember correctly, you said someone installed linux on a hard
drive and shipped it to you. Saturday, you are going to install a
network card in the machine, right? I think we can predict what is going
to happen if you tell us what you get when you type a couple of commands
at a command prompt. First, type this:
grep -c eth0 /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
The result should be just a single number, probably either zero or one.
Next, do this:
grep -c eth0 /etc/network/interfaces
That command will display a number probably either zero or two. If that
shows a zero, then a network card is not configured on your system. We
may be able to walk you through that. But lets hope this command
displays at least a two.
Either way, we may ask you to follow up with some more commands that
will give us more detail.
On 3/4/2013 8:56 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Kiddo,
You illustrate what others have pointed out...the assumption that one
automatically knows what those are, how to run them, and how to avoid
doing harm.
Given the person who installed debian on the drive in the first place
fried a hard drive with experimenting, I am not going there, smiles.
Kare
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Jude DaShiell wrote:
As a real quick experiment that won't do any harm you could as root or
using sudo try ifconfig -a enter and if that shows you an eth0 port try
ifconfig eth0 and see if the name of the ethernet card driver comes up.
If so, I expect what Tim Chase told you will be accurate. On Mon, 4 Mar
2013, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi,
no it is wired.
I saved the wireless stuff for my dos laptop.
The in theory meaning that Linux would just load network drivers even
if not
installed on a machine with a network?
That makes sense actually. when we put the hard drive in, debian
found or
basically at least, the hardware in the computer. I have a dec-talk
express
for the Linux box, and all the modules loaded just fine.
We shall find out on Saturday then.
thanks, really!
Kare
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Tim Chase wrote:
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?
In theory, it should already have drivers for your network
card and be configured to (1) notice that the network cable
has been plugged in, and (2) default to using DHCP to talk
to your router.
If not, there are additional diagnostics one can check to
ensure that you have a network card that Linux supports, and
that nobody configured the machine for a static IP address
in favor of a dynamic one. If it uses wireless rather than
wired connections, that is a whole other mess.
-tim
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