I just bought a new linux box and installed slink-and-a-half on it.
(It had Win98 which I blew away already)

During the install, it asked about network config.  Since I did't have
a cat-5 cable handy at the time, I told Deb's installer not to configure
it.

I tried getting help on the #debian IRC channel but all I got back was
"run 'man interfaces'".  That's useless, since the only files with the
letters "interface" in them are a pair of text docs regarding the program
"gv"!

They then told me that it should've been installed with the base
install (btw, I picked the "Standard" install, out of all of the
workstation, scientific, server, etc. pre-packaged choices)

Anyway, what I'd _prefer_ to do is somehow get access to the network
config'er again (kinda like you can run "sndconfig" under RedHat and
you get that same ugly red/blue screen that plays Linus's voice as a
test sound like you do when you initially install RedHat).

Any ideas!?  I assume there's some package I need to install off
the CD which got skipped.


BTW, the card is a DEC 21040 PCI.  (It's got a coaxial connector
along with the cat-5!  Cool!)

Thx in advance!

-bill!
(seriously considering just re-installing from scratch :^/ gpm's broke, too)

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