[nmglug] Network question

[BrianO'Keefe]

My brother is trying to get his old HP box set up as his newer MicroTel 
crapped out. We'll be woroking on that at some point but for now he'd 
like to get the HP functional. He's running Hardy on it and all seems 
fine except for networking.
His ISP is Comcast and he recently bought a wireless router so his wife 
could use her laptop at home. He set up the router with the MicroTel and 
all was fine until the MicroTel crapped out.
I thought that he'd just be able to plug the HP into the router and have 
ethernet since the router was al configured but apparently that is not 
the case. He says that there is no network choice to pick from either 
NetworkManager or the Network tools. this makes no sense to me.
The HP does not have wireless support.
Any ideas of where to start with this?


thanks,
Brian