I'm trying to get Debian going on my Thinkpad T21, and synchronize with my Sony Clie PDA.
I installed Woody using packages via ftp, so it's up to date. During the install, one of the choices is to use 'netenv' to configure the network. I don't know any better - I'm new to Debian - so I let it. It works fine if I boot on the kernel delivered by the original installation process, but that kernel doesn't provide the options to sync with my PDA, so I've been trying to make a new kernel. I'm using the kernel-package and make-kpkg tools as shown in the Debian manual, and that part seems to work. I've got a kernel that may have what I need to sync my PDA. But it won't give me my network access. I've looked a bit at the 'netenv' stuff, and it seems to have created hard definitions of my network settings in /etc/netenv. I chose during install to use DHCP when it asked - the netenv settings don't seem to reflect this. What am I not understanding about how to work with this? I want DHCP, and I want my network to work, but I don't know how to approach this in Debian. I'll spend plenty of time studying networking once I have a working system, but I can't go on without it (I'm back in Redhat 8 to write this). I'm connecting to the Internet with a cable modem and a router. The router assigns my local address. Clues, suggestions, explanations would be very welcome. Should I be accepting 'netenv' during the install? How can I get rid of it and use DHCP to configure my network on startup? Or...? Thanks, Bret -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
