Danilo C. M. Marques wrote:
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> Hello for everyone !!
>
> I had begin Debian 'Potato' installation. I followed all steps
> indicated by installer program (loaded modules, etc,etc ...). When a tried
> to configurate the network via DHCP server ... no works. So, configurated
> it 'by hand'. Using a ping command in tty2 virtual console, I noted that
> the network wasn't up ! My question is: Do I how do to get up the network
> ? I loaded the correct module to my eth0 device (ne.o because I have a
> NE2000 ISA PnP network card), with the correct options (IO=0x300 IRQ=3).
If you have the right module loaded, then add to
/etc/network/interfaces iface eth0 inet dhcp
hostname debian
then you bring it up by running> ifup eth0
and you can check the status with> ifconfig eth0
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