Tor- Simon Law wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network > configured properly. You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off > to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their > residence's network. > > The only problem is, they've given me settings that theoretically > working for flavours of Windows, but those settings seem to be dodgy > when it comes to the Debian installation programme (dbootstrap). >
Hmmm. I'm not sure, but maybe you can use a dhcp client? AFAICT, it sets up the ethernet device automagically. I had it set up on my machine about a month ago, and I'm pretty sure that it took care of all that. I've since taken up the task of creating a firewall, and being lazy, I haven't installed dhcpcd to replace the static settings I entered for the install. Check it out. There's a HOWTO at http://www.metalab.unc.edu/linux/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.html It may answer some of your questions. hth -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
