After a few days of playing with this I'm really starting to love it. Speed is definitely not an issue. This old Dell is acting like it's a young pup again. About the only thing it won't do is direct a missile at a car parked under me whose alarm has been singing at me for the last two hours. But I'm working on that. :-)
After reading some of the complaints here and being horrified by some of my own past experineces I haven't noticed one little thing I can't live with so far. A few quirks but nothing serious. As far as the downloaded CDs are concerned 3 of them, the first three, quite happily play on my CD player...an old and rather balky thing that has been a pain in the past. So far so good this time out. CD's 4 and 5 though fail to read on that device but read just fine on the CD burner. I can't figure that out but I can live with it. I just had to rejig my sources a bit and I was off. Now...the Internet connection sharing and all that rot. In the past drakgw has made a right royal mess of things because I use eth1 for the outside world and eth0 for my internal network. The first time I tried to configure it this way it failed. As I was in a hurry that time I reinstalled and cringed a few days before I tried again. This time it worked! There was one difference and only one in how I installed. On the first attempt I configured both cards when I was installing. drakgw happily assumed that eth0 was the internet instead of eth1, in spite of asking me politely, and borked the whole thing. On the second install I only configured eth1. drakgw asked me all the same questions, correctly selected the unconfigured NIC as the card to assign the internal network to and installed. I brewed a very strong cup of coffee (the strongest mood altering substance I'm allowed these days) and waited. After configuring everything drakgw happily announced that I was set up. I took a big swig of coffee, scratched my cat's ears for luck, and switched over to Networking in MCC. Damned if it didn't look like everything was there! I was even seeing traffic! I pointed Konq to a known good web site and I got there!!!!! So here's the moral of the story...if you plan to use a NIC for the internal network do NOT, EVER, configure it on install. Leave it out. Don't even pretend it exists. Only configure the card you plan to use to connect to the internet. That way drakgw will actually select the right card, configure the correct card for the internal network and you'll be fine. Anything else and it will sulk and insist that you must mean that eth0 is the internet regardless of what you tell it. There...figured out...all on my own. Gee I'm proud of myself. :-) If I keep this up I'll be able to join Joe Hill as a sage here. :-) ttfn John
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