RE: [Sheflug] No connection yet

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====

>
Why cant we standardize on one desktop? Or make the two desktops
>compatible with each other so that any application will run on either of
>them?

 Then we wouldn't have a choice. :-) There are more than just two desktops,
althought KDE and Gnome are probably the main two.
 Strangely, I've never had much problems running a program under both systems,
although Gnome is my choice of desktop at the moment.
 If you can't run a program under both systems, there is probably an 
alternative
that will.

>
I still have no connections. The two PC's connected by NE2000
>ethernet cards (works OK under windows) will not talk to each other under
>Linux (SuSE 6.4). I have finally found out how to get yast to admit that
>there IS an ethernet card in the computer (Yast2 the graphic installer told
>me the card was not detected). Now there are a host of other things which
>need to be set up correctly before it will work.

 Mmm. Have you settled down and read the Networking HOWTOs?
 I've had success setting up and using NE2000 clones and 3Com 509 NICs.

 I'm not sure how SUSE set up their default kernels, but try modprobing the 
ne2k
module (check /lib/modules/kernel-2.what.ever/network to see if the module is
there).
 Edit /etc/sysconfig/network and then ifup eth0. Hopefully that should do it.

>
> There is still no luck with the internet either.
> His advice was "not to run a non standard
>operating system" and "if you would re install Windows it will solve all
>your problems".

Solve all your problems? ROFL. :-)

 Once you find another ISP, give your setup a go, and if it still doesn't 
work,
post your config scripts and we can all have a look a them.

 Cheers,

 Baz.

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