[plug] Installing new hardware the 'Debian' way.

[I am the LinuxAlien]

NO, thats the only way that I know of to do it, It is for the beginners 
like me, and the smart experienced people that don't have the time to go 
through the files manually when there is a simple easy to use program that 
does it for them.
;)

At 14:34 27/11/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:39, Alan Graham wrote:
> > I found that I did have the auto ethx entries in already.  After a bit
> > of messing around, I decided to put the two entries into /etc/modules.
> > And Voila!  It all works.  I'm still confused about the alias entries in
> > /etc/modutils/aliases, especially about the system entered "alias eth0
> > off".  Do aliases not work under Debian in the same way as other
> > distro's?
>
>Am I the only one who just runs modconf and uses the ncurses "gui" to add &
>configure modules under Debian? (Yes, I have manually edited /etc/modules
>before...)
>
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