> That has nothing to do with it and won't work (by the way, there are a lot
> more network cards then just ne compatible ones).
> What you should do is edit your /etc/init.d/network, you should make it
> look like something like this:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
>
> If you want to you could let your system think it's on a LAN by adding the
> following lines:
>
> IPADDR=10.10.10.10
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=255.255.255.0
> BROADCAST=10.10.10.255
> GATEWAY=
> ifconfig lo ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> I never actually tried that, but I guess it should work (take notice of
> the lo after ifconfig, in your /etc/init.d/network it will probably be
> eth0 (ip adresses can of course also be altered (that is: 10.10.10.10 and
> with it 10.10.10.255).
Ok, I think your right, because it could be possible that some daemons
need a network card to work properly. All of our computers which are
running Linux have a card, because they are connected in a network. I
have never tried to setup a computer with Linux but without NIC.
Uwe
