Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email ?? -Original Message- From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP address, mandrake should set this up automatically if, during the install process you tell it to set up your network card with dynamic IP. On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email?? -Original Message- From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to reboot, I don't know. That's ALL I have to do to make RoadRunner work with Linux. Maybe it will work for you. It's worth a try. Good Luck! Jacob Aaron Holbrook wrote: well I just called them again to try and get the information. They said that they cannot give it out because it changes all the time and they cannot assign a "static address" to me. I ran netcfg and set my eth0 to active, saved, closed the window and tried to ping. It didn't work so i went back into netcfg and my eth0 was inactive again.
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem well I called them again..and they said that they could not give them to me because they don't know what they are...and said that they "cannot assign static names". This is because it uses dhcp to obtain them. - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem I work for an ISP and I know how Technical Support can be...with as many calls as flood the phone center, there isn't time simply to handle every call that comes in with various software. Personally when a customer calls to ask for DNS, mail info, I give it, or direct them to our website. Check your provider's website for a "quick config sheet" or the like. Valjean On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Pittman, Merle wrote: Exactly! The fact that it is linux has nothing to do with it. They are still responsible to give you the information. With my cable provider I have to get the information to set up windows as well, and they are very willing to give you the info. They do not support linux but still give you the info and it is up to you to get it working. How can Windows set it up automatically?? Sure it can recognize the IP assigned if your ISP uses Dynamic IP addressing, but how do you configure DNS and your email servers?? -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
I appear to be getting all the email from your forum/discussion group. Like 100's a day. What is the forum called so that I can try to get it fixed ?? Bryn Jones -Original Message- From: Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1 Jeepers, I came here for info ang get a friggin' soap opera to boot. What a discusion group!!! At 10:12 AM 4/20/00 -02-30, you wrote: I certainly do not think I am sharper, better, smarter, less destructive than anyone else. That's what I was trying to tell you if you care to listen. You just don't think outside that little bubble you call a life do you? -Original Message- From: Mike Corbeil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1 Pittman, Merle wrote: YOU ARROGANT P---k!! So a few math and physics courses (probably from mail order, or your nearest community college) make you all that. I have 2 advanced degrees in engineering (electronics and computers) yet I think myself no better or smarter than anyone on this list and neither should you. Having advanced degrees does not necessarily make you a sharper human being, except that you know more about the technical business you studied in. Humans are not reduceable to merely technological terms. There's a hell of a lot more to being a totally balanced human being than an ego trip over advanced degrees in technology. Don't know if you're noticed or not, but technology has also been much the cause for the serious degradation of the natural environment on this planet; therefore, before waving your pieces of paper, think first, because these aren't impressive, no where as much as the continuous destruction of the natural environment of this planet is. If only people with might high pieces of paper in technical studies could only figure out that simple reality. My arrogance is only your interpretation. I wonder if someone who waves highly advanced pieces of paper can figure out the simple meaning of this; however, to give you a little assistance, what it means is that I'm not at all arrogant and it's merely in your eyes that I am. What I am, though, is FRANK and a no-bs type. If you prefer bs, pc crap, then by all means, continue to live that way, if that's how you like to perceive the world; however, don't ever pretend your two pieces of paper to be of any true significance to me, for reasons as stated above. That's what I have to think about many so-called highly educated types. I don't reduce humanity to mathematics or science, but instead take the opposite pov, which is to put these sciences to the service of HUMANITY. Hence I BELIEVE in PEOPLE, far more than I believe in the sciences we discover and develop, but use so atrociously. If you don't grasp this truth, then believe me when I tell you, you'll never be convincing, not to me. If you knew how to read, then you'ld have realized very clearly that I wasn't bragging, but only describing my pov and reasoning to illustrate. T'was not at all for bragging, because, as per above. mike -Original Message- From: Mike Corbeil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1 Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mikecorrect me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the guy who's been telling some folks in this list that their questions aren't appropriate for this forum and to go ask them in the expert list? Well I think that your response in this thread (quoted below) was not appropriate for the newbie list. The remedy here was very simple and your four rambling paragraphs have simply served to confuse the issue. Not really, but then maybe I've been accustomed to less than trivial for longer than I can recall. When I first started learning about computers and programming, my ramble wouldn't have caused any problems, but then I also had a few years of math and physics behind me. Nonetheless, if I think back to before that, then I wouldn't have been put off by a more thorough explanation. Heck, my father wanted me to help him remodel the house when I was a mere 8 years old; therefore, I've been held to above normal expectations for decades. If you're confused, then don't think that this means that everyone else who's a newbie would also be confused. As I recall in school, in every course, at every level, not everyone was equally comfortable with the material. What I prefer to do when I find an answer or document too complicated
[newbie] Boot problem
I have just installed LINUX on a quite old TwinHead laptop (75MHz Pentium 24 Mb memory) The installation seemed to work OK and gave me the message Installation successful. On reboot I get LI on the screen and then it hangs. I have tried it as a workstation, server and custom. Help please. Regards Bryn Jones
