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Mailion, I know I alreayd post it this unde the networking section, but no one has replied: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1226 But do you know how I can linux to automatically detect my internet connection through my router. Presently, I have to do it from "Configure this computer in the network and internet section, it's kinda of annoying to else have to open "configure this computer" and login as root to start decteting my internect connection. If you know or anybody else, please let know.

You know, Dapper Dan is right! I also had problems before trying to install Red hat 8.0 on my new Sony computer, but guess what...everyone in this forum recomended trying other distros, and now I have Mandrake 9.2 and I love it! It's awesome. Didn't take me that long to get it working...only 13 minutes to install it and I as up in running. As far as the stolen code, you should go and tell Mr. Gates about it 'cause he's the living example of what stolen code is all about. Most people have been so used to M$ OSs, but once you start using Linux, you the see the light! You start thinking out of the box like they say...hang in there and try other distros.

Quote: Maillion Member Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 91 Location: Texas, USA Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great! (I have a couple of situations where I got something to work and can't figure out how I did it!) I hope that when you get the answers to all your question, you will hang around to provide your own answers to others...) I sure will!

If I'm understading well, you are only usign a cable modem and you want to share the internet connection to both of your computers...if this correct, then you might have to buy a new router and install it between your computer and your cable modem. You might have to configure your router with the computer that has WinXp...once your router is configure, you can share your internet connection with the one that has Linux. I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 also and had to buy a router to since my dsl ISP say that they don't support linux...but once you configure your router, you should able to share the connection with your other computer.

I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and I was wondering how I can make a shortcut to connect to the internet...instead of going into "Configuration--->configure your computer--->network and internet--->and clicking on the icon that helps configure the internet connection to connect, which I have to do everytime to connect to my DSL service through my router. Is there a way to automatically connect online when loging in into linux? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Never mind guys. I got my DSL working now. Somehow, I figured it out...I don't even know what I did...I guess I remembered what the DNS servers IPs and my gateway (router) IP was.... Thank you Dapper Dan, Danleff, Maillion....and everyone else who helped. You're help is really appreciated. I guess the next thing I have to worry about is how to configure my DVD-rom...I'm sure I'll be around for a while asking other questions...

Quote: Dapper Dan Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DSL modem shouldn't care if there is a router between it and your computer. A lot of these cable and DSL companies will say they don't support Linux because they simply don't even know what it is, and they can't support something they don't want to understand. I prefer Linksys. You can pick up a wired Linksys router at a reasonable price. Netgear works well too. So I finally bought the Linksys (BEFSR41) dsl router...and my understanding is that my computer should be able to connect online if properly configured under linux. Can someone please list the instructions how I would configure this type pf router under mandrake 9.2. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Quote: If the nic card is not recognized, the easiest thing to do is buy an inexpensive NIC pci card at a computer store. Look for a realtek chipset. The cost is about $10.00, so it's worth preventing the hassle. How is the system connected currently, through usb, or not? Maillion and danleff, I think my network is a Realtek chipset. The system is currently connected simply from my network card in my desktop to a dsl modem...no router. Yeah My ISP requires installing their special software...but hopefully it'll work with the router...So what I have to do is use a router and connected to the dsl modem, which will be connected to my computer, right. Any recomendations for a good router? I think my IP should dynamic...I noticed that the last two sets of digits always change with a range...is this supposed to be dynamic?

Guys, after all I decided to try out Mandrake 9.2 on my Sony Vaio since I was thinking it would have the more updated drivers or programs needed for my computer. I love it... Everything seems to be working ok, except my DVD player...won't play movies or copy DVDs. It is a "Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R5002"...haven't done much research on finding the drivers for this, but if you guys have an insight on this, please let know. Another thing, when it is booting up and doing all the systems check...one of the statements fails to execute. This is what it says "Bringing up interface eth0......[Failed]" - You guys know what this is...is it my ethernet card? If you guys know, please let me know. I had one a couple of more questions. Currently I have DSL, but my ISP (go figure) say that they don't support Linux. Is there a free ISP that you guys connect to? Or how do you configure the internet connection? Is there ISPs (not free service I'm assuming) specifically for linux users. It's a really bummer not being able to connect to the internet. This is my first time using Mandrake and most likely one of the first to install it on this kind of Sony desk top. I wish a lot of people knew more about this... Danleff...that aritcle describing about the partitions really helped..thank you. Dapper Dan, thanks for recommending Morphix. I tried it out and by just trying it out I really couldn't wait to install it in my computer, but for some reason the bootloader never came up and I was never able to access from the hard drive once installed, but it's cool though...Mandrake is awesome and I really haven't begun to really explore its powerful potential.

I already downloaded the wallpapers...I love all of them. I'm really glad I found this forum...it's so helpful.

Thank you Dapper Dan...I will try it. The /home partition, how much memory should I assign to it... I'm sorry...I'm a somewhat new to this, so still learning slowly. I really appreciate your feedback...thank you.

This are a really great sites guys...I know some of this commands but of course I can never remember what all of them do...

Danleff, I did it from WinXp --"Admistrative Tools -> Computer Management-->Storage-->Disk Management" and created a Primary Dos Partition. However, when I was doing the swap, /, /boot partions through disk fruid, I deleted this partion and then it said "free space" and from there I added the lunix partions (swap, /boot, etc.) I don't know if I am doing the partitions correctly, these are the partitions that I did: ---------- 256Ram Swap /boot 127m ext2 / allowe all available space ext3 Please let me know anything to corrrect this if I'm doing something wrong.

Thank you for the recomendation Dapper Dan, I will try it later tonight. It shouldn't make a difference, right, if it's laptop or desktop 'cause mine is a desktop. If anybody has other recomendations, please let me know. And thank you again Dapper Dan.

I recently bought a new Sony Vaio PCV-RS310: 2.4B GHz Intel Pent. 4 80 GB, ATA-100 256 MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM Intel® 845GV integrated graphics Current OS: WinXP home ed. I've been doing research and I've found nothing out there to try to find out which Lunix would be compatible with this desktop. So my first question is if anybody has had success installing Linux in this type of computer, or which version is it compatible with? I am so desperate to change to Linux, but I haven't had success in installing a previous version of Red Hat Linux 8.0 that I had. When I install this version of Lunix as a dual boot, it is able to install it, but as it is doing its first boot it crashes or goes out of bounds. It fails to boot up when doing something "compatible Eth01" check. Another thing, when switching back to Windows throught the boot loader, which I think is GRUB, it totally messes up my computer and Windows is not able to boot up again. ;( I've already tried installing it a couple of times from a Primary partition that I created (4 Gigs just to try it) and I still can't succeed instaling it. Also, I as am doing the /boot partion throught disk fruid, it gives me a message that this partition might create problems with my type of archetecture and they recommed creating a boot disk, which I didn't and had to restore the whole computer image twice....I really want to have Linux in my computer, so any help will GREATLY appreaciated.