a more simple question?

[Jude DaShiell]

As a real quick experiment that won't do any harm you could as root or 
using sudo try ifconfig -a enter and if that shows you an eth0 port try 
ifconfig eth0 and see if the name of the ethernet card driver comes up.  
If so, I expect what Tim Chase told you will be accurate. On Mon, 4 Mar 
2013, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Hi,
> no it is wired.
> I saved the wireless stuff for my dos laptop.
> The in theory meaning that Linux would just load network drivers even if not
> installed on a machine with a network?
> That makes sense actually.  when we put the hard drive in, debian found or
> basically at least, the hardware in the computer.  I have a dec-talk express
> for the Linux box,  and all the modules loaded just fine.
> We shall find out on Saturday then.
> thanks, really!
> Kare
> 
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Tim Chase wrote:
> 
> > > if we just connect the network card to the new dsl modem
> > > and boot up the Linux box, will it load the drivers it may
> > > need for that hardware automatically?
> >
> > In theory, it should already have drivers for your network
> > card and be configured to (1) notice that the network cable
> > has been plugged in, and (2) default to using DHCP to talk
> > to your router.
> >
> > If not, there are additional diagnostics one can check to
> > ensure that you have a network card that Linux supports, and
> > that nobody configured the machine for a static IP address
> > in favor of a dynamic one.  If it uses wireless rather than
> > wired connections, that is a whole other mess.
> >
> > -tim
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