[SATLUG] Configuring linux to connect to internet.

[Daniel DiPaolo]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 21:35, Raul S. wrote:
> Newbie question:
> I just got cable modem, but I cannot connect with
> linux to the internet. My laptop has the 10/100 card.
> Does anybody know of a document that will explain
> this. I am fairly new with linux. Thank.

Well, each distro has their network config files in a slightly different
place, but pretty much all of them basically just require that two
things happen:

1) You set your network card to be "brought up" (as in activated/online,
whatever) on boot using DHCP
2) That you have a DHCP client installed that it knows about and have it
configured correctly.
3) (okay I lied about there being 2 things) Make sure your network
card's kernel module gets loaded on boot.

So, if you tell us what distribution of Linux, we (I or some others) can
probably point you to the appropriate places for each of these 2^H3
things.

-- 
Daniel DiPaolo <ddipaolo at strike.homelinux.org>
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