On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: > [...snip] well I managed to get it working - sort of... It doesn't seem to want to work if I just use the old dialup connection I had on the desktop [which is a shortcut to the same place that "connect to the internet" on the K menu points to]. But if I go through the wizard again, and let it detect the modem and the nic, at the end it lets me tell it to use the modem to connect. Then it complains of errors and tells me to use "net_monitor" - and from there if I tell it to connect, it will actually work. But on rebooting, everything is back like before - will connect, but not go anywhere... I've done it a few times, tried but the set address and the auto one with more or less the same results: it works when it feels like it :)
So at least I can connect, but it's a lot of mouse clicks etc, and it's a bit hit'n'miss. Oh at least it can ping the laptop now [and back again] so that's a good step forward. > > I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you browse through some > of the available Mandrake Linux documentation, > [...snip] > Below are links that should be available on your local Linux machine that can > talk you through how to setup networking on your machine step by step. > [...snip] > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Ethernet/Ethernet-HOWTO.html > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Net/index.html > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Linux-Modem-Sharing/index.html > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/SMB/SMB-HOWTO.html > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Intranet-Server/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Netscape+Proxy.html Unfortunately, none of those exist on my system. Indeed, /usr/share/doc/HOWTO doesn't exist. These are the only "howto"s I can find: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# locate howto /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.91/ipv6-6to4.howto /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.91/ipv6-tunnel.howto /usr/share/doc/vim-common-6.1/doc/howto.txt /usr/share/doc/chbg-1.5/xscreensaver-howto.txt /usr/share/doc/mplayer-0.92/tech/cvs-howto.txt /usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/docbook/howto /usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/docbook/howto/README.NOW /usr/share/webmin/man/view_howto.cgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I googled for the first one, but found it only in individual html pages - not as a single set I can download and read offline. The second one I could only find in Dutch [or something...] Do you know where/how I could download those docs you suggested, as a set? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618
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