Direct ethernet

2003-09-20 Thread Tommy McCabe
I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into computer) that connects to a cable modem which is connected to the Internet and another computer. The Internet works fine via Windows, but Debian won't access anything. Everything points to an Ethernet card (which I

Configuring Debian

2003-09-14 Thread Tommy McCabe
Even with Windows, installing Debian is a snap- boot from the CD/floppy, answer a few questions about which partitions to divide up and your keyboard and stuff, and the program takes care of it. When I reboot it, it asks me about a hundred different qusetions about Debian configuartion half of