In article <006201c0b988$36843a20$dca4fea9@kc.rr.com> you write:
>
>I'll throw in my two cents on the Debian distribution from a past user =
>of Redhat and Mandrake.  My first installation of Debian went fairly =
>easy, a desktop system with a dialup connection.  However, I have yet to =
>get Roadrunner working on that same system (network card problems), =
>which is why I'm writing this on a Windows machine. =20

What network card problems do you have?  Is your NIC an ISA card?  If so
then I recommend some boot-time parameters to lilo.  PCI cards are
recognized and configured much more easily.  Does rr use a dhcp server?  
In this case you need debian's dhcp-client package.  

dmesg |grep eth0  will tell you what the kernel did with your eth0
interface at boot-up, if anything.  
 

Regards,

-Don
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