On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> John Wilson wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Now I don't know a thing about that POS called Windows and I
> > don't spend, oh, about 85% of my time fixing ADSL, T1 and D3
> > connections from XP and its ilk so I guess I don't know
> > anything about this.
> >
> > The IP you get, as has been explained is a Zero Config IP. I
> > thin MDK had it turned on by default way back in v9.0 and got
> > yelled at whole bunches. Anyway, ignore it. It's meaningless
> > unless it accidentally gives you the home IP of one William
> > Gates. Then either go to town or duck for cover, whichever
> > seems appropriate.
> >
> > The XP firewall hides. You have to click on Network from the
> > control panel then find your hardware..click on that....disable
> > it...go to the properties dialog and disable it there. Yes, it
> > works connection by connection. Now, go check your TCP/IP
> > setup and make sure that it's okay but you do that on the
> > bridge. You might want to check the bridge for the firewall
> > too, while you're at it.
> >
> > After all that's done accept all the changes, sigh and reboot
> > when it asks for it. If it doesn't ask reboot anyway because
> > I've noticed that Zero Config on Windows is stubborn as a mule
> > unless you do.
> >
> > When it comes back up you should have the the IP served by the
> > ISP. If not do the /release, /renew cycle until you get it.
> > If you don't repeat the above for every network device on the
> > silly thing until you do.
> >
> > Don't tear hair out, if you're like me it's probably getting
> > precious about now anyway.
> >
> > Do get your relative to install a real OS ASAP. :-)
> >
> > Not that I know anything at all about Windows. Nope, not me.
> >
> > ttfn
> >
> > John
>
> I think this is one of the better descriptions I have sean about
> how to "fix" the problem. The interesting thig, at least to me,
> is how many people on the list moved to Linux to get away from
> problems like this, and then get talked into fixing them for
> other people. It may have somethig to do with the fact that we
> don't spend much time fixing our Linux setups, so we have more
> time to fix other people's systems.
>
> (I get to work on an XP laptop system that desided it doesn't
> want to boot any more - I can hardly wait to see how it managed
> to mess itself up this time... and I don't even run XP myself!)
I guess you're right here. And thanks to John. I never used Windows
myself, came to Linux from OS/2 (which was orders of magnitudes
better than Windows). I'm forced to "use" Windows at my work, but
I've found a workaround : I simply boot the machine at my office
with Knoppix.
I don't know why I'm getting entangled in this Windows-madness, but
somehow my friends tend to consider me a little "geeky" (yes me, a
former professional soldier, surgeon, sailor, womanizer and
beer-drinking 6-footer) but they believe everyone using Linux to be
some sort of uber-nerd....
Well, I already impressed my pal with Knoppix, demonstrating that
his hardware is OK. Right now we're discussing the possibility of
his box being infected with some malware - aside from Windows.
Tomorrow will be an interesting day.
Kaj Haulrich.
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