Alfred Smart wrote: > Could someone give me a heads up on their experience with wireless > network pci cards and routers? I am not experienced with wireless, and not a big fan of it for reliability and security reasons. I run all twisted pair here. I used to run 10 Mbit Ethernet with hubs thrown out at work, I finally broke down and bought a 24-port 10/100 ethernet switch on eBay for $9.99! (I had to change the fans in it, they screamed.) > and the drivers that come packaged with the EMC2 live cd and what worked > for them. There should be a hardware compatibility list for Ubuntu that tells what network cards work, might work, and are known to not work. > Is the EMC2 live cd a striped down version of Ubuntu? I don't think so, I think they just added the EMC2 run time package to the standard Ubuntu distro. > I do not have a compiler installed so,I really have no way to compile a > driver if need be, The instructions on how to add the packages to be able to compile EMC are on the wiki page related to installing EMC2.
> I would like to get my Linux box online and networking also. Networking with Ubuntu has been the simplest ever, and it wasn't simple on previous systems like BDI. If you have DHCP, there is nothing whatsoever to do, except have the network cable plugged in when you install. > Can a Linux machine and a windows machine be networked together,and > access each others drives, and recognize each other? Sort of. Samba makes Windows shared drives accessible to a Linux system, and is very easy to set up, you just need to know the name and password of the Windows share. I use FTP (or SFTP) on Linux to move stuff around. Most later Windows systems, like 2000, have ftp installed. I have also installed Putty on Windows, so I can log in to the Linux system from wherever I am, to check a directory or whatever. Linux also offers NFS, which I know very little about. it allows systems to share drives. I'd guess there must be a Windows package that can access NFS drives, but there may be security problems with that. > Sorry for posting here, but I am not sure what the Live cd has for > drivers on board , and from some sights I see you may need to compile a > driver to get up and running. Very rare! I think it has several hundred network card types supported. And, you can add new types, as they become available, by an automated update system. Nobody but developers and insane geeks compile network drivers. That was from 2001 or so. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
