iMac network hardware
Rob Diehl
diehlr at bellsouth.net
Sun Sep 19 16:22:11 UTC 2004
It would be nice if some very brief, elementary instructions for
troubleshooting and configuring network devices were written up on the
Ubuntu website. I think there are going to be a lot of relatively
inexperienced users interested in trying out Ubuntu on machines such as
the old iMac. Simple things, such as:
Where do you put modprobe lines to automatically run at boot
How do you use ifconfig to configure a network adapter for typical use
(face it, man pages are not user friendly)
What else needs to be done to get on the Internet? route add? DNS? I'm
having a hell of a time over here.
I realize these are all things most Linux experts know how to do, but a
page-long blurb for newcomers would be welcome. Having to google for
every last thing is not fun, especially the mess of unrelated info that
you have to sift through.
><newbie_extreme>
>
> Since I am having this same problem with my B&W G3, maybe
> this will work for me too. What exactly does "you should
> just be able to load [sungem]" mean? From where and how?
>
> One of the things that got me really interested in trying
> out Ubuntu is that it's goal is to "just work." I realize
> its still in the beginning phase right now, but I'd really
> like to get it to "just work."
>
></newbie_extreme>
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Brett
>
>
>
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