"Larry D. Weiner" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Storm Linux (and relatively new to Linux itself, although I
> have a great deal of expericence with mainline Unix variants). I've
> installed the Rain release on a machine that has a Linksys adapter on
> it. The installation apparently went OK - it "recognized" the adapter
> as a DEC chip (can't remember the chip name). However, I can't access
> the network from this computer.
>
> I have verified that the connection itself works - by plugging the
> same cable into another machine. The network configuration appears to
> be OK. I can ping the local host address (not 127.0.0.1, but the
> 198.x.x.x address). However, pings to the broadcast address only get
> returns from the local host.
>
> Linksys is not on the hardware compatibility list. Would I be able to
> get support from a driver from a source other than Storm? Does/Should
> one of the current drivers supported by Storm also work with the
> Linksys card?
>
> With regard to "Debian", does this refer to the kernel code base, a
> set of APIs, or what? Is Debian a possible source of an ethernet
> driver that would work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Larry
>
Debian is the distro Storm is based on.See http://www.debian.org
Asd for the network Linksys is supported and works fine.NOw the probelm
with Storm I had with rain (I thought they fixed it in hail,apparently
not) is that if you use dhcp then you have to start SAS,network
everytime after you login.The quick fix will be to edit manually
/etc/network/interfaces as shown by
man interfaces .
--
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
My waste of cyberspace=
http://deepblue.dyndns.org :-)
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