On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:48:15PM -0500, raman narasimhan wrote: > me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my > Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL > broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net > settings haven't been set. how can we connect his system to the Internet?? > does it need any specific packages??
The net stuff should be there. You need to set up /etc/network/interfaces. If you look in your file, you'll see what types of things should be in your friend's. There's a man page on the interfaces file to help. Likely, you have an NIC that plugs into the ASDL modem and gets configured with dhcp. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
