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How can I route internet traffic from two seperate network connections to my linux box. At any given time one connection WILL be down, no questions asked, (it's just that way, deal with it). My primary interface is eth0, a internal NIC Intel pro/100 (eepro100 kernel module, I think). My 'secondary' interface is wlan0, Intel pro/2100 wireless NIC (linuxant driverloader -ndis wrapper- with wind*ws drivers). I can always do ifup-ifdown and get either interface ready for me to browse the internet, but that takes about 30 seconds that I don't like thinking about if I don't want a firewall, and if I do want my firewall -which I do!- preparing internet takes around 2 minutes to completely reconfigure the firewalls external interface. ATTENTION: The wifi does not use WAP authentification, so don't even go there when figuring this one out. I use the SuseFirewall2 preferably. So... , I do use dhcp (sorry it's required) and there will always be one connection down. I'm running Suse Linux 9.0 pro and am very fluent in linux, so lay it on thick 'experts'. Technical stuff: The computer is a toshiba satellite pro m15-s405 laptop with 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 24-12-24-16 dvd-rom/cd-rw, 15.1" lcd screen, nvidia geforce2 420 32m video.

If you came to this hoping to help out a fellow linux user, sorry, I fixed my own problem. The main thing was that I finally found the file containing info about all of the external interfaces and modified it to include both eth0 and wlan0. I then created two scripts to ifup whichever interface I was running on at that time.

I have indeed tried it and it is okay. It is better for ex-wind*ws gamers. Otherwise, wine rack is a "more" graphical representation of installing and running windows programs through the wine program. It includes the crossover office plugin, transgaming program (mainly for wind*ws games), and Marble blast (the game). I recommend it for anyone that has had to rely on two or three legacy apps that only reside on the win32 platform.

I run SuSE 9.0 and I know for a fact that it can run, at boot time, a custom script that is very hassle free to edit and execute. Go, as root user, and find /etc/init.d/boot.local if it's there; if that file is there then go to the end of it with your favorite text editor and add your command that sets your domain name as if you were at the console. If all goes well, save the file, reboot, and the instant before your computer switches to your preselected runlevel, your command will run.

I run a Toshiba Satellite Pro M15-S405 and had the exact same problem. Do you use the online system update? If not, try that, when I was still experimenting with the SuSE 9.0 installation I found that the xfree86 and nvidia drivers were the cause of the situation. I'm happily able to logout from the X server and login with a different user, etc., without having to reboot or switch runlevels to regain my cursor.

I run Suse linux 9.0 professional on my toshiba m15-s405 laptop, it has 512mb of ram and a p4m processor. I never have more than 250mb ram used all together including what linux has cached, buffered, and not to mention my tmpfs /tmp file in ram. The question is, would it be easier for me to have a monolithic kernel (which will compile correctly), or should I go for the perfect 'tuned' kernel with modules (which so far does not compile sucessfully)? I am an experienced linux user/geek and would like to know from some other "seasoned professionals" their opinion on this subject.

I've been goin round to see what others have to say about winmodems, if I find a situation that seems that it could benefit from my input then I will contribute.

I finally have gotten my winmodem to work with linux and also my wifi too. I have a customized 2.6 kernel and now have a 40 second boot time compared to my 3 minute boot time with the 2.4-default kernel.

I haven't checked my email until today and I agree with your comment sjworth, but on the other hand I do know about everything in my laptop minus the wireless lan and the winmodem. Right now I leave my kernel in a monolithic state with the capability to load modules for my linmodem developing, which requires modules until I program a working one into the kernel. But as always big buisiness is slow to recon with the turmoil they present to the linux community with new hardware and support for it, so... my WAN is unsupported by intel until their programmers convert their current windows drivers to a linux usable form.

To hunter_da_punter and your last comment about dual opteron distro, I found one but it will cost you an arm and a leg. Suse linux server 8 at www.suse.com will support I think up to 4-64bit amd opteron processors at the wonderful (not!) price of 1,400.00.

I use kde 3.1 and am trying to get a working copy of kde 3.2 installed. At first when I made my new steps into the gui world I was scared away by kde at my lowres 256 color settings and moved over to gnome. Gnome eventually turned out to be very incompatible with the applications I was wanting to run so I upgraded my hardware and ventured into hires screen configs and back into kde.

It shouldn't pose any problem to install the boot loader first. You will just have to tell the Xandros installation to not install a boot loader. And by the way you're going to have to know exactly what you need to boot Xandros before you install, I suggest writing down all of your current working settings and converting them for use in your new boot loader. Other than the paragraph I just posted, take your time .

Have you installed 3d acceleration? If not then do so if you can. Also try using mem=512m at the boot prompt before linux loads, linux might be getting mixed signals from the bios about the ram so this should clear that if it is a problem.

Linux should not overcharge your battery since it is your laptop that handles the automatic regulation of charge from the ac input. Linux simply recognises when you are charging, how much battery is left, and if you are not charging. No worries, be happy. And by the way, what is up with the second comment in your post about you writing some stuff about... huh! I don't understand that. ;(

I love suse to death, I didn't even start off with it. I got it as my second distro, mandrake being first, and learned how to use it. Right now I recently tried to switch to redhat but got slapped in the face with something that felt like wind*ws xp (redhat 9 pro), so I went back and upgraded my suse to 9.0 prof. from suse 8.1 prof.

I too had the same problem but it was the media. I had a burned copy; try to do that MD5 thingy where it checks the cd for correctness. I can't remember how to do it because when I finally got RH9 to work I hated it for it's lack of really anything and then switched to my favorite distro Suse linux 9.0 professional.

Maybe that will be your answer, I don't know. Too bad I'm not an network administrator or else I could help out more. tried

Just take your time, everytime the Xserver resets aka everytime you log in or login as a different user from a previous session just wait. It should only take about 10 seconds from the time you see the mouse before you should use it. If this does not help at all then you might want to double check your mouse configuration.

hdparm may just answer all of your problems if you don't have it download it from anywhere like www.freshrpms.net . Look at it's commands and you will find settings to change cdrom drive speeds, dma, multicount settings (should be no more than 16 by the way), and many other wonderful things that you can do to your cdrom and your hard drive to speed up linux and your cd reading/burning.

Why not uninstall the unnecessary email program that you don't like.

How fast is your hard drive, if you burn dvds from iso's etc. then just use a decent hard drive. If you prefer on the fly or dao mode then you might want at least 128 mb or higher (Don't forget to tell k3b to use a big buffer for itself!) and only if you have buffer under run protection on your burner, else you will find yourself surrounded by coasters.

Try to look at your hard drive settings to enable, if you can, dma or even better udma. If that does nothing for you then open your command prompt and use the command top to view what's going on with your processor usage.

Try typing dmesg at the command prompt and sift through the "wreckage" of you system startup to find any errors that occured that the system did not tell you about.

I really like Suse 9.0 professional, you just need to know how to sastisfy its dependencies when installing-everything is included, just put the puzzle together correctly and you'll probably be happy with the results. Too bad you can't download this one, it takes up 2 dvd disks, and in the linux world that means around a 15~20 gigabyte install if you go all out, big huh!

Just use either kppp or wvdial to dialup your isp. KPPP is my personal favorite and it is fairly easy to use.