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| Thread ID: 46868 | 2004-07-08 06:22:00 | I've taken the plunge - installed Linux | jcr1 (893) | Press F1 |
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| 250673 | 2004-07-08 06:22:00 | I installed Linux Libranet 2.8 (as thats the one I have) and it went well. In the past I've installed it on lower spec'd machines and the installation takes so long it's tedious and half the modules aren't found and Xwindows becomes an ordeal etc. etc. But, this one went really well; the partitioning tool on the Libranet CD didn't allow me to partition the drive (NTFS) so I dragged out a floppy with BootLT NG and resized the NTFS partition down to 19 gigs, which left about 10 gigs free space for Linux. I let the install process handle it from this point on; it created the linux partition and the swap partition without any intervention and created a Reiser FS file system. Also, I put the bootloader on HDA1. Configuring Xwindows was abreeze, found sound modules no problem. Only thing, I need to configure my internet, which is wireless. It is connected from network device to service interface unit and then by coax cable to aerial. I think I might need some advice with this one? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 250674 | 2004-07-08 07:53:00 | Can't help you with yor wireless but, good going. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 250675 | 2004-07-08 09:22:00 | Are you in your manic phase Murray ?? ;\ :D Don't burn out will you !!! ]:) ]:) Misty |
Misty (368) | ||
| 250676 | 2004-07-08 10:16:00 | Maniac I think ;\ Cheers Murray ;P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 250677 | 2004-07-08 23:10:00 | Like Murray, I have no experience with wireless networking on Linux. Did it detect the network card on install... or can you configure it post install? I trust it will be a visit to Google. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 250678 | 2004-07-08 23:45:00 | There is a how-to guide on the Libranet support website on configuring a wireless network - here (libranet.com). If you run dmesg in a console window, you should be able to see whether your network device was detected. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 250679 | 2004-07-09 02:51:00 | You need the "wireless-tools" at least, and a driver for the device. Try iwconfig. If it gives you a "wlan0" device, you are well on the way. Then ifconfig wlan0 <my computer's name> up will make it appear in ifconfig, and you should be able to ping other (working) wireless devices. You might need to "ping other.wireless.device -I wlan0". The redhat-configure-network knows how to deal with wlan0,soall the others ought to. ;-) There is a HOWTO. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 250680 | 2004-07-09 04:39:00 | Thanks for your advice, Graham & you too Jen C. The network devices are identified (Eth 1 & Eth 0) . Eth 1 is the one for my wireless internet device (WAN miniport under networking devices in windows or Service Interface Unit on the back of the device). I have used PPPoE configuration in Libranet and got the right messages (I think). Using Mozilla it'll get so far, the little watch appears like it's waiting to load website and message at bottom of Mozilla reads something like "Resolving Host www....(whatever Url is I picked)". So, I feel I'm almost there, but there is some config thingy I'm not doing. Would I need a proxy server perhaps? This PPPoE configuration I think is different from setting up a wireless LAN, in some respects and from the little I've read is not such a complex thing, I don't know? I've asked the lads at Libranet for a bit of advice on this & just waiting for a reply. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 250681 | 2004-07-09 12:15:00 | I've just got a reply from Tal, at Libranet, asking me for system information so he can help me; I got this by running (as root): /usr/lib/adminmenu/scripts.sh collect_diagnostics this info was then transferred to: /tmp/system_info.tar.gz I then copied (using cp) this info onto a floppy (so I could send it as e-mail from Windows) and sent it as an attachment. So, hopefully Tal will be able to nut something out for me. Lotsa fun |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 250682 | 2004-07-09 12:28:00 | Thought I had it! Just checked out my Mepis network configuation panel, it has wireless, ath0 and wlan0 all for configuring variations on WiFi. All in beautiful GUI and ready to go if I had it of course.Doesn't help you at all to know this jcr1, it just illustrates how quickly Linux is moving along into desktop territory. Then again you could always give Mepis a try if you can't get your working. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
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