I just installed slink recently. My IP address is assigned through dhcp, but while installing was unsure how to set dhcp up. I used the IP address I was currently assigned and that works for now. Will the below work to retrospectively setup dhcp so I won't have to change my IP address every time my lease expires?
--- "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > I finally got a second box to install Linux on > today. Unfortunately its > > not the Compaq Deskpro EN I had hoped for. Its an > older Digital 5000 PC > > with the following specs: > > > > PII 233 > > Adaptec AHA-2940 UW SCSI Adapter > > 2 Seagate 2Gb SCSI HDs > > Matrox Mystique video card (2Mb) > > Digital Semiconductor EB143 based 10/100 > "evaluation" ethernet card > > > > (1) What Ethernet driver should I select for this > NIC ? I got the > > details of the HW from Windows NT which the > machine already has on > > it. Not sure if its a PCI or ISA NIC. Has anyone > heard of this NIC ? > > Dunno. Sorry. > > > (2) How do I setup the system to use DHCP once the > ethernet card is > > setup properly ? I never setup a machine to use > DHCP but I am assuming > > that it isn't too tricky. > > Just install the dhcpcd package and in your > /etc/init.d/network put in a line to start > up this daemon with eth0 as an argument. > > > I would like to get the machine up and running > with slink, and then plan > > to upgrade it to potato and kernel 2.2.13 once > networking is configured > > properly. > > > > Thanks for any info. > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ===== rick _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
