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However I got online by following the Mandrake wizard, for a standalone system. You need to get the following information, from your ISP or your previous OS. The ISP's access telephone number username password your fully qualified domain name* If you should use PPP or SLIP (PPP appears to be preferable) If you should enable header compression If you should use DHCP If not then your IP adddress, the IP address of at least one DNS name server, and the name or IP address of the default gateway. If you ask questions like this then they will help you. It's just that they don't want to get into Linux. *For example: my FQDN from my ISP is "soronlin.demon.co.uk" As a standalone configuration it would be reasonable to make the domain name "demon.co.uk" and the host name "soronlin" However if you have a house LAN then this wont work. It's a good idea to make (in my case) "soronlin.demon.co.uk" the domain name of the house, and to add a hostname onto it. So my machine might be "snoopy.soronlin.demon.co.uk" This allows routing to be handled correctly, otherwise I couldn't communicate with "anotheruser.demon.co.uk" I am assuming that this is a dial-up link. If you have a cable router then things get simpler, but you still need the IP addresses of nameservers, and you need to remember/find out the address of the router to set as the default gateway. Setting up a server for the house is much more complex. I find that the firewall configuration wizard does not work for me, and I am currently blaming the fact that I have an ethernet NIC and a dialup link, which you may also have. Sharing the modem to the other machines is a whole new can of worms called IP Masquerading: read the N.A.G. In short, you can use the wizard to get online, but read the NAG to make it a server. I hope this helps, good luck! -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Antonio R. Sent: 08 November 2002 03:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Connecting to Internet Hi everybody: I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the server of my house and there are two other computers connected to mine, so… I need someone to help me, step by step, on how to configure my internet connection and who do I set up my computer as a server, or at least, can anybody tell me where can I read in the internet information concerning about this? OK, I have and DSL connection with external modem and I don’t know where to find my Domain Name and my DNS servers nor nothing, so I need to find all the information to connect either. And by the way, can anybody tell me how to configure my keyboard because it has an English configuration and I need to configure it to Spanish. Well, that is all. Please, help me with this ☺! TIA Antonio R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18319148 "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean (1931-1955) ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
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