The Net-tools package contains programs for basic networking. &buildtime; &net-tools-time; &diskspace; &net-tools-compsize; &aa-nettools-down; &aa-nettools-dep;   If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the make config phase below, then just accept the defaults. This will be just fine in the majority of cases. What you're asked here is a bunch of questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work with the most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel -- what you do here is merely telling the package to include support for those protocols in its programs, but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available. First fix a small syntax problem in the sources of the mii-tool program: patch -Np1 -i ../&net-tools-mii-patch; Now prepare Net-tools for compilation (if you intend to accept the defaults, you can skip all the questions by running yes "" | make config instead): make config Compile the package: make And install it: make update &aa-nettools-shortdesc; &aa-nettools-desc;