Anyone here a Debian expert?

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First, I don't think I configured my card correctly at installation. Now, Linksys FAQ's are saying I should have used the Tulip driver or something like that. I have the disk, and I think it has a linux driver on it, but it's formatted in Windowz, and mtools doesn't seem to be present on Debian. Any suggestions on how I could get this thing to work?

Second, I can't get "multi_cdrom" to show up in dselect, and I don't know how I could get it to show up. If someone could help out with a apt file: command that would point to the cdrom, that would help immensely.

Third, if anyone here has setup @home in Linux, I just need to know if you had to do anything special. My hostname is my account, no ip, netmask default. I don't know what else to do on this, and that's what leads me to believe my network card isn't setup

Thanks for any help that you may can give me. I am posting this from Mandrake, so I'm not a complete Linux newbie, but as I quickly saw from Debian, I'm not a command line expert either.

[wreckd]

well, i'm no expert but if i can help now i'll feel super 1337 ;)

1- as far as the disk goes - i'm not even familiar with mtools. do you have a vfat module? i.e. can you mount the floppy like so:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy

that should do it. but tulip is just as common as vfat so why not look for tulip on your system?
locate tulip
or
find /lib/modules -name tulip*

actually you don't even need to find it to
modprobe tulip
now as long as your card settings, irq and whatnot, are set up you should have it working.

2- to add a cdrom to your apt sources use
apt-cdrom add

3- i have set up seti before but i don't remember it being any big deal. there are better ways to check if your card is working....`ping yahoo.com` springs to mind - if that works you should (usually) be alright.

couple other things.
1- the command line is a Good Thing. i almost always have an eterm or two in x. i learned to appreciate it using slackware and now i still feel most comfortable there. knowing how to use cli is, i think, having the key to linux' power.

2- a good introduction to debian is progeny debian. i was a little intimidated by debian at first. i installed progeny a while back and it did a great job of installing the hardware i had. progeny's installer is about as easy, if not as pretty, as mandy's. then when i felt better about debian i did an upgrade to testing/unstable and never looked back.

[ 19 September 2001: Message edited by: wreckd ]

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