[Gllug] Can't get my CNet PRO200WL netcard to work in Gentoo

[Mats Hulten]

> wierd ISP - who is it ??!!
Telia in Sweden. The govermental phone service gone private... They are
not excactly assosiated with effectivness... :)
 
> do you actually have to log on to a web page each time you dial up !!!
Telia requires that you log in every time you want to access the net
(when you need a dynamic IP that is). The only way they provide is the
webpage... Of course there is an app to bypass this that was released
about 5 minutes after telia made the announcement, called LF Connection
Keeper, so this is most often only an inconvieniense... But still...
 
> in this case dual boot won't help - as the modem eill hang up 
> on reboot ...
Nope... this has nothing to do with the modem, its the DHCP servers that
refuses to give a IP-no without login. As the timeout is set to
something like 20 or 30 minutes, all thats needed to do is to send a
ping with that interval to keep the connection alive, as long as you
alredy have logged in.
When the base system is installed you can alvays install lfck witch will
solve the problem.

My mistake was that i destroyed the Win2K bootloader when installing
GRUB, thus was unable to access the net via W2K...

> I would really recommend either 
> 
> try another distro - one of the beauties of linux is that the 
> installation is 
> so much easier and faster than commercial systems - you can 
> get a customisied 
> sytem complete with development tools, servers, office 
> software etc set up in 
> under an hour (and most of that hour can be spent doing 
> something else while 
> the CD whirs).
Hell no! I'm certainly not ready to give up on Gentoo yet!!! :)

> 
> OR
> 
> get hold of a cheap second machine (v low spec) and play with 
> that - this is 
> what I normally do when playing with new setups 
> 
> one machine to break another to google and read man pages
> 
> even if you main machine is windows it wil have access to man 
> pages via the 
> web (not to mention linuxdoc ...)
Well, I bought this high end (at least for another 3 months... :)
machine to toy around with... So, what the heck! :)

> can you do connection sharing with win2000 ??
Don't know... Can I? :)

-Mats



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