a more simple question?

[John G. Heim]

Karen,

If I remember correctly, you said someone installed linux on a hard 
drive and shipped it to you. Saturday, you are going to install a 
network card in the machine, right? I think we can predict what is going 
to happen if you tell us what you get when you type a couple of commands 
at a command prompt. First, type this:

grep -c eth0 /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

The result should be just a single number, probably either zero or one. 
  Next, do this:

grep -c eth0 /etc/network/interfaces

That command will display a number probably either zero or two. If that 
shows a zero, then a network card is not configured on your system. We 
may be able to walk you through that. But lets hope this command 
displays at least a two.
Either way, we may ask you to follow up with some more commands that 
will give us more detail.




On 3/4/2013 8:56 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Kiddo,
> You illustrate what others have pointed out...the assumption that one
> automatically knows what those are, how to run them, and how to avoid
> doing harm.
> Given the person who installed debian on the drive in the first place
> fried a hard drive with experimenting, I am not going there, smiles.
> Kare
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> 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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