Hi All,

I am a "Newbie" to linux only previous experience with Windows and Novell.
So PLEASE excuse my ignorance.

Here is the scoop;

I am trying to install/run Debian "Woody 3or4" on my HP Netserver LC2000;
the server has a dual processor PIII933Mhz(which I am aware that there are
"issues" with the "SMP" support, but that's not my concern now)
it also has 1GB of RAM, two network interfaces Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100
rev 08.

During the initial installation I was able to see/configure the "onboard"
NIC to grab an IP from my router successfully. After rebooting the NIC
doesn't load( "ifconfig" returns only loopback information), I tried running
/installing "discover", which doesn't seem to detect it either.

All my installations are done from CD image downloaded from the website, I
can't download any packages directly for the obvious reason that I don't
have network connection.

Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated....thanks in advance

NB:the network card is enabled in BIOS, actually it shows as one of the PCI
devices when I run "lspci" on the terminal

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:57:18 -0500, Sycho
<freerocks@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a "Newbie" to linux only previous experience with Windows and Novell.
> So PLEASE excuse my ignorance.
>
> Here is the scoop;
>
> I am trying to install/run Debian "Woody 3or4" on my HP Netserver LC2000;
> the server has a dual processor PIII933Mhz(which I am aware that there are
> "issues" with the "SMP" support, but that's not my concern now)
> it also has 1GB of RAM, two network interfaces Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100
> rev 08.
>
> During the initial installation I was able to see/configure the "onboard"
> NIC to grab an IP from my router successfully. After rebooting the NIC
> doesn't load( "ifconfig" returns only loopback information), I tried running
> /installing "discover", which doesn't seem to detect it either.
>
Try modconf.

> All my installations are done from CD image downloaded from the website, I
> can't download any packages directly for the obvious reason that I don't
> have network connection.
>
I recommend Ubuntu Linux http://ubuntulinux.com. It's a Debian-based
distribution and they mail the install CD to you for free.

Thanks Bill,

I will try to use "modconf" as advised.

Thank you also for pointing "Ubuntu" it sure looks very encouraging to now
that there is a new version (release) every six month, it sure is worth
giving it a try.

thanks again, I will keep you posted.

Well.....I have my server online, I finally managed to get
my network card loaded. As silly as it might sound all what
was wrong was a BAD network cable, sometimes it's much
simpler then it seems....I just failed to check the obvious.
thanks to all.

"sycho" <freerocks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:tYSdnRG3pI9zn9zfRVn-tA@rogers.com...
> Thanks Bill,
>
> I will try to use "modconf" as advised.
>
> Thank you also for pointing "Ubuntu" it sure looks very encouraging to now
> that there is a new version (release) every six month, it sure is worth
> giving it a try.
>
> thanks again, I will keep you posted.
>
>