In your email to me, Mike Patterson, you wrote: > > > First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I > now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95 > machines, and the install for it took <100 megs, easy! > > Now on to the questions.... > > * I have a promise VL4030-1 controller (currently it has the original BIOS, > but I'm thinking of grabbing the latest) and I would like to put a third > or fourth drive on it. Does Linux have any problems recognizing these > drives, or is there a patch out there for this? Or can I only use two > of the Promise's drives?
It should see them by default. > * Now that I have this nifty Linux box that I'm using as a central hub for > my network, I was wondering if it would be possible to give it dial-in > PPP capability. Optimally, I would like the person to be able to dial in > with a Win95 box and hook into my own systems using IPX. possible? Maybe > someone could point me to some documentation on this one. While I'm not sure if the Debian pppd has ipx support compiled in, take a look at my mgetty page (of course, ignore the building part since the Debian version is built correctly) at http://www.buoy.com/isp. That should get you started. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Everything's better when wet." Steve Miller - "Jungle Love" ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
