Hi, First, I set both windoze boxes to static IP addresses, and verified they still talk to each other. The desktop refuses to shut down now, it just goes to blue screen and stays there. But I could care less about that atm, I can just hit the reset switch and boot into Linux and shut down cleanly from there. That's not the problem. The problem is I've killed my internet connection. I'm typing this in a net cafe, after setting up a new account and subscribing it to the list. [btw what's with the archives at mandrake.com only going up till Nov03?]
I ran the drakeconnect wizard again, but it wouldn't let me NOT put in a DNS server or [the other one - I can't remember now] It complained that the DNS Server should be in the form n.n.n.n and suggested [IIRC] 186.192.0.3 and 186.192.0.2. I'm not sure of those numbers, I'm going from memory here. It was 7AM when I was trying to sort out what was going wrong and that's late, even for me... When I start KPPP it dials and connects to the ISP ok, but then nothing further happens. Evolution times out with "unknown reason" and all web pages return "connection refused". I ran the wizard again and it had obliterated my dialup account - I had to go searching through boxes and boxes of bits of paper and receipts etc to find the original signup stuff from the ISP so I could re-enter the dialin numbers and username and password again. But still, the same symptoms, no matter what I tried. It seems like regardless of the state of the dialup, the network connection seems to want to take over. <<<<interruption>>>> I had a bunch more stuff typed but then there was a power failure here and I had to type it all again. I think you have enough to get the idea of the problem. I have no time left now; I'll try and find another net cafe in a few hours or so. In the meantime, any suggestions will be appreciated... -- Merlin Zener
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