iMac network hardware

[Rob Diehl]

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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