Cheers for the help, all working well now. 

Found an app on the net that lets you set the Windows box as a proxy. If anyone's interested :

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/proxy.htm
only about 200KB.

Going to try this with ADSL and/or Cable Modem later. 

Cheers again,

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@uk.now.com>
To: gllug@linux.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:37:34 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Dazed and confused

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:48:03PM +0100, Matthew Bunter wrote:
> > OK, looked under /var/lib/pcmcia/stab and there it is :
> > 
> > Socket 1: Xircom RealPort2 10/100 Fast Ethernet
> > 1      network xirc2ps_cs       0        eth0
> > 
> > cardmgr beeps at me when I remove it so it knows its there. The error message at startup was :
> > 
> > Bring up interface eth0. Delaying eth0 interogation [Failed]
> > 
> > Everything else has an [OK] after it.
> 
> This is a RedHat'ism for handling nics with PCMCIA.  
> 
> The network comes up 10 runlevels 2345 where as PCMCIA comes up at 45 on
> the same runlevels.
> 
> Don't worry about the boot error, this is fine.  It can be fixed, or you
> can live with it.  
> 
> You'll need to setup the network settings for eth0, you can do this
> manually, use linuxconf or /usr/sbin/netconfig which sets up the config
> files under /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
> 
> OK sounds as if your nic is being detected (check using lsmod and dmesg)
> .  Set up the IP and you should be away.
> 
> Paul
> 
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