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Re: Installing linux in my school.



On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Yoni Elhanani wrote:

> For the past few days I'm trying to set up a website in my school using
> a linux server.
> It is done now because the 2.0.x kernel did not support our network
> card.
	I hope you are wrong :)

> So i compiled the new kernel and i have no idea why it doesnt work,
> i did everything on the howto, but still, i cant connect to the
	What is the card? Intel kind? PnP?
usually you need to do 2 things
	1. enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENRTAL in you /usr/src/linux/.config and
if you card now supported :)
	2. if card PnP you need to use isapnp (after pnpdump of course) to
configure 'io' and 'irq' and give the vallues as parameters to module

> Also, on startup, it reports that it cannot find net-pf5 module, is that
> the problem?
	no, you can just 
---------------------/etc/conf.modules------------------------------
# If you don't have appletalk and don't want to see error messages
# uncomment the next line:
alias net-pf-5 off
---------------------------------------------------------------------

> The linux is redhat, so is it possible to use theredhat net config
> after installation?
	more easy way install Debian :)

> Please help, I do have a deadline, I promised the school that it will be
> up in a week or so.

UNIX is user friendly.It's just selective about its friends are.
:)


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