I was pretty much able to set up Debian on my Inspiron (apm, pcmcia, modem and ethernet cards) from reading the HOWTO's in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/ (and a little help from right here.) The pcmcia one was especially good. The Debian-specific docs seem to be in /usr/share/doc/<package-name>. There ought to be an overview of the Debian Way To Do Networking, but I haven't found it.
Sometimes docs don't get installed when you think they should, so using 'find ...' to find them is fruitless. Suggestion for Debian maintainers: at install time let me specify "I want all relevant docs by default". On one system I have (not my notebook) I managed (newbily surfing through dselect) to have installed gcc, but no gcc info pages. It took me a while to realize I needed the gcc-doc package. Why not have foo-docless packages for those who really don't want docs, and let the package foo contain the docs? Will tom writes: > I'm really trying to RTFM but I have a heck of a time finding it. > [...] -- William F. Dowling ISI/Thomson Scientific (www.isinet.com) 215-386-0100 x-1156
