Dear Civilme: Just wanted to report a minor but critical bug in the Internet Connection Configuration. It happens both during Install and when trying to configure Internet Connection from scratch in the Mandrake Control Center. This little bug caused me no end of confusion and agony when I first tried to configure my Internet Connection in LM 8.0. Here it is: I have two NIC cards on my system: eth0 (3c905b) and eth1 (Syslink "tulip"). I connect to the Internet through eth0 and my LAN then connects my computer 1 to computer 2 by means of eth1. The bug occurs if you choose to let LM 8.0 detect your NIC cards AUTOMATICALLY. In my case, it selects "LAN" for my configuration. That's wrong. I do not connect to the Internet on computer 1 through LAN but through DSL. When I accepted this "official" detection by LM 8.0 and tried (several times) to configure my LAN, I then found it impossible to install Internet Sharing. I was very confused and almost gave up on Internet Sharing. But then I decided to go against this "official" detection and chose DSL, which brought up BOTH eth0 and eth1, configured eth0 for my Internet Connection and completed my Install. Then, when I booted up, both eth0 and eth1 were recognized, logged into KDE and clicked on "Internet" (Network Monitoring), which connected me to the Internet using my ADSL eth0. Once I was online, I went into Mandrake Control Center, skipped Internet Connection altogether, went directly into Internet Sharing and used the Wizard to configure my LAN. The Wizard reported that it would set up my LAN using my eth1 (tulip). Right on the money. It then automatically downloaded and installed all the necessary files and, bingo, in seconds, my second computer was connected to the Internet using ADSL. The point is that the automatic detection thoroughly confused me. I just assumed that LM 8.0's Wizard knows better than me what ought to be configured at this staqe. And LM 8.0's Wizard in this case was DEAD WRONG. I wanted to let you know so that this bug can be fixed or else some text be added to the configuration of Internet Connection AT THIS CRITICAL JUNCTURE of the Install. That's it. All my thanks for a great job and a great distro. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
