You guys may remember my recent posts: "How to set IRQ of network card" and "Resolving domain names in Linux" Well, both problems are gone and here's what I had to do: The IRQ of my network card was being reported as 255, and I knew it should be on 10. Remebering something I read somewhere, I went and disabled Plug & Play in the BIOS and then the card worked fine. The domain name resolution problem was a bit more tricky. I had set the nameserver entry in resolv.conf file to point to the IP of my other machine (which has the internet connection), and I could ping outside machines by IP but not by URL. Then I read on the Sygate FAQ that if you have a cable modem (which I do), you have to use the IP of your ISP's DNS, not the IP of your internet machine. So I found out what my ISP's DNS is and put that IP in my resolv.conf file instead of 192.168.1.1, and I can now ping www.intel.com just fine. I can open a web site in Netscape by the URL, etc. Those two problems together took me about 6 weeks to solve. Just thought I'd share this info so some other newbie might save some time. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
