Hi, I am a real newbie and just joined this list. I decided to try Debian 2.2.19 but finding it a bit hard to configure everything. When I first installed it, no cards were detected. Since then I have been able to load modules to get my sound card to work but can't seem to get my network running.
I have tried the newsgroups with a little success but now I need a real Debian expert. I have modified my /etc/modules file and added the module tulip. With this I can ping both machines. My Linux machine will ping my windows machine and vice versa. That's it. What I want to achieve is to get my packages direct from the Internet. Currently I have to download them on my windows machine, copy them to my cd and install using dpkg -i. Long term would be to get rid of windows but that is a long way aways. My windows machine is connected to the Internet via dialup. My Linux machine is on the network. It can dual boot windows or Linux. Using dselect I have set up the access but when I do the update I get errors like Could not resolve, Failed to fetch etc etc. Can someone help? What do you need to know? I have read a lot of Howto's. One think I think is strange is I don't have /etc/resolve.conf Is this normal? Thanks in anticipation Cheers Al
