[Nottingham] Setup on the main PC *nearly* worked.... couple of problems...

[David Aldred]

In message <41223B70.90102 at ml1.co.uk>, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> writes:
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>[...]
>> disconnected.  Dual boot the hard way - open the machine and 
>>reconnect
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>lilo or grup dual boot is easy. This thing here is multiple boot with 8 
>or so options in lilo and two always connected HDDs (and other 
>stuff)...

Yeah - but this was to be on the very safe side.  Had I not been able to 
reboot into Windows at this stage I'd have been a bit stuck, and for a 
'test stage' this was the easiest way of being very safe!

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>> although the Linuxant site says that this will only run at 14.4k 
>>until  it's paid for and registered, it ran at 56k).  So far I haven't 
>>got as
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>Rather interesting. I held off from installing their rpm because of the 
>"2.4" kernel number and I'm on 2.6... What rpm is actually installed?

At the point at which everything was working (!), the packages on the 
Mandrake 10.0.1 CD's were installed, and I'd also installed the package 
downloaded from the Linuxant site for 2.6.3:
hcfpcimodem-1.01lnxt04062300full_k2.6.3_7mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm

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>You can now get external 56k voice/fax/data modems for £10...
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Where?

(Actually, the whole modem thing may become irrelevant soon - the 
NTLWorld 300k broadband looks a very likely option very soon.  Still, 
I'd want a workable backup connection: as we all know, your main net 
connection only ever fails you when it's vital!)
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>> Incidentally, the wireless network seems far more stable under Linux 
>>than under Windows.  The roughly two-hourly unplugging and re-plugging 
>>of the wireless dongle from the main machine to resurrect the 
>>connection  was no longer necessary!
>
>What wireless card?

An 'Addon' brand (whoever thought of that one didn't think of search 
engines!) Wireless USB Lan Adapter.  £20 or so from Maplin. Specifically 
says on the box that it supports Linux, and it does - although all the 
printed instructions with it refer to Windows.

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>[...]
>> - Can I have a firewall, internet sharing and internal pings all at 
>>once, preferably with static IP addressing on the internal network (I 
>>just prefer to know the numbers for each machine to help trace any 
>>network issues)?
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>Yes. Very easy, even for the convoluted setups that I have! Sorry, it 
>requires reading up on shorewall. About 30 mins should have you see the 
>light (:-)).

Right.  I'll start reading!

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>> Oh, and any recommendations for Linux virus checking?
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>Use amavisd to plug in whichever virus scanner you choose for email 
>scanning.

..And then read some more :-)

Thanks!!

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