[newbie] Internet connection problems

2005-01-07 Thread paul
Here in Cyprus, an ADSL line is provided by the only phone operator, and the service is provided by both this company and others. To log on, I need to go to the phone company's site, where I select my service provider (an Active-X setup). Any mention of linux to support elicits the response "type

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 9.1 and Open Office Writer won't start.

2003-10-13 Thread Sharrea Day
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:17, Graham Watkins wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > This weekend I finally convinced friends of mine that a Linux > installation on their computer was a good idea and installed 9.1 for > them. (First time I'd done this as I'm still using 9.) The actual > installation went well but conn

[newbie] Internet connection problems with 9.1 and Open Office Writer won't start.

2003-10-13 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all, This weekend I finally convinced friends of mine that a Linux installation on their computer was a good idea and installed 9.1 for them. (First time I'd done this as I'm still using 9.) The actual installation went well but connecting to the internet doesn't work as this particular c

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Just to mention it, there might be another factor with a 3C509 card -- there is a software program to set up the card, to do things like select the IRQ, I/O address, and to choose (on some variations of the card, at least) which interface to use (RJ-45, Coax, or AUI). Maybe this software setup ne

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: > Drosera wrote: > >I think my problem at this moment is a wrong network card (ISA > >3Com509B) I will get today another one, maybe then my problems are solved. > Yep, that particular ISA card claims to detect and transmits but on some > systems does not receive. Wow! A 3Com card

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-21 Thread Drosera
Stop the press, my Internet connection is working under Linux!!!, just disable the sound card in my bios and that was all.. Strange and I don't understand it. But anyway it works :-) The next step is setting up E-Mail and the Internet connection sharing. Greets and thanks, Drosera.

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Drosera
Hi Civileme, Mandrake detects the 3c509 on a wrong way, it says it's on IRQ 5 and I/O 220. This is not true, it is on IRQ 10 (5 is my soundcard) and I/O is 0x2E0 when I change it manually it is talking about modprob and isa-pnp. Is it trying to reload the network driver in memory??? But with

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Drosera wrote: >Hi! > >I am sorry for the HTML :-) > >I can talk to my local network (ping 192.168.0.2 works). so that's not the >problem. I think my problem at this moment is a wrong network card (ISA >3Com509B) I will get today another one, maybe then my problems are solved. > >Can I use the st

Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Drosera wrote: > >%_Hi! > > I guess this question has been answered for 100's of times, that's why I am >asking for a good URL :-) which explains in detail how to get Mandrake working with a >cable modem and two network-cards, I guess it isn't that difficult? > > I can

[newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Drosera
Hi!       I guess this question has been answered for 100's of times, that's why I am asking for a good URL :-) which explains in detail how to get Mandrake working with a cable modem and two network-cards, I guess it isn't that difficult?   I can't get it to work with the wizards :-(   I ho

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2002-03-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 15 March 2002 15:05, you wrote: > Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my > > home LAN. My setup is as follows: > > > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > > 192.168.0.2 > > > > -

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2002-03-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 15 March 2002 12:33, you wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my > home LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > 192.168.0.2 > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Cont

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2002-03-15 Thread Guilherme Cirne
I'm using the Home version of Wingate so I'm not really sure how to do that. But what I can tell you is that when I'm running Windows on the client machine (I have dual-boot system) I can access the internet normally. Also when I had LM 8.0 a few months back everything worked perfectly with thi

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2002-03-15 Thread Norman
Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home > LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip > 192.168.0.2 > > - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2002-03-15 Thread Miark
Guilherme, Did you enable DNS forwarding in WinGate? Miark On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:33:51 -0300, Guilherme Cirne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home > LAN. My setup is as follows: > > - Machine sharing th

[newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2002-03-15 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home LAN. My setup is as follows: - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip 192.168.0.2 - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip 192.168.0.1, gateway 192.168.0.2, D

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2001-06-10 Thread Benjamin Bayer
I am getting here late, but have you tried, prior to using kppp to connect, modprobe ppp_async? Your situation sounds like the one I was in with LM8.0b1, the ppp0 module didn't exist, ppp_async didn't load for some reason, I had to load it manually everytime. I got the pppd server died unexpecte

[newbie] Internet Connection Problems

2001-06-06 Thread Chris Keegan
Okay I'm using Mandrake 7.2 with the kppp (kde) dial frontend,I can`t connect to the internet, I keep getting pppd server died unexpectedly errors?...I`ve gone into /etc/ppp/options and looked at the file. I have been told to change the `auth` command to `#auth` or `noauth` but to no avail.