On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:17 pm, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: > 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? >
unless there's a totally compelling need to keep the "win-don't" box hooked to the internet, you're life would be a lot easier if you used the linux box to dialup. in that case, for /etc/resolv.conf, you create the file in the form: search <your isp's domain name> nameserver <your isp's dns server in numerical ip form> nameserver <any additional dns server at your isp> ben
