On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:20:13 -0400, you wrote:
>try as superuser
>ifup ethx where x is 0, 1, 2, etc
OK, when I type in the above (exactly as written) this is what I get:
usage" ifup <device name>
>or go into DrakConf and do a network config you might have to pick out your
>module try 3com 59x or something like that
I went into that, but I didnt see anyplace to pick a module! Mark
Weaver gave me some info, Im going to try that and see what happens.
Also, Im reading reading reading. Im sure Ill get somewhere
eventually, but a lot of the stuff Im seeing is either not quite what
I need, or its written from the assumption of some technical knowledge
on my part which doesnt yet exist...
>
>
>On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, you wrote:
>> OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing -
>> I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my
>> own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/
>>
>> Oh well...;-)
>>
>> So, anywho, I have a 3com Etherlink Nic card, (model 3C900B-TPO),
>> along with the 3com HomeConnect cable modem. When I booted into linux
>> after physically installing it, kudzu came up, and said it installed
>> it, but Linux doesnt seem to see it.
>>
>> So, the long and short of this is, how do I configure this thing?
>> Starting from installation, through configuring the network...if
>> someone could just point me to a place where I could read about it,
>> hopefully that was written for complete, total newbies to linux, that
>> would be great.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> peace,
>>
>> Rog
>> http://www.slammingrooves.com
>
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
