On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, stormjumper wrote:
> i'd hate to dash your hopes,
> but release candidates are there for people to try,
> so that bugs and issues can be ironed out.
>
> if you as facing such massive problems,
> and yet bear such high hopes on mdk 9.1
> you SHOULD report the issues,
Ah yes, that never occured to me. ;-)
Oh wait, no. Already done.
> (if they haven't already been reported)
> and try to find solutions for them.
Well, obviously, I've been trying to do that.
> else whatever failed will probably continue with mdk 9.1.
>
> luck
Thank you.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 07:11
> Subject: Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking
>
>
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mark wrote:
> >
> > > > Hmm...I just entered the IP to my router (gateway), which is exactly
> what
> > > > I did to get this install (9.1 b3) online. Successfully, as you can
> > > > see...;-)
> > >
> > > Hi Roger,
> > >
> > > I just saw this thread, so, I'm a few days behind on it. when I saw the
> > > original post I realized what I "think" it the problem. that would be
> that
> > > you've got your modem on the wrong side of your router.
> > >
> > > the setup should look like this:
> > >
> > > [PC]---->[Router]----->[CableModem]---->{ISP}--->{Internet}
> > >
> > > according to you post your setup appears like this:
> > >
> > > [PC]---->[CableModem]---->[Router]---->{ISP}----.{Internet}
> > >
> > > With the modem between your PC and Router I don't think things are going
> > > to work too well.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but my setup is [PC] --> [Router] -->
> > [Cablemodem] --> etc. As I had said, it worked fine with everything prior
> > to rc2; in fact, right now, I'm running beta 3...it seems to work better
> > for me than rc1 did.
> >
> > Actually, I'm not touching rc2 again...someone told me to try installing
> > firestarter on it, so I put the rpm on a floppy, installed rc2, couldn't
> > access my floppy drive. Put the rpm on a cdrom, and then couldn't access
> > either my cd-rw, or my dvd player. rc2 was nothing short of a colossal
> > failure for me...really, really hoping that whatever problems will be
> > sorted out by the final release, so that my fear that there is a bug that
> > only manifests itself on my pc, or almost as bad, that I'm a total idiot,
> > will be assuaged.
> >
>
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