On 23-Mar-2000 єхєхс щст№щ wrote: > > Let me suggest some easy solution: I have a spare COM 3C509 ISA NIC > which known as relatively effortless to configure under Linux. I can > exchange it to Intel. Thanks for the offer, but I finally solved most of the problem. In case anyone is interested, as I wrote this morning, I decided to **steal** a PCI card from one of my other machines. This card was immediatelly recognized and configured by Mandrake, but trying to configure networking crashed the machine a few times. And when I tried to PING I still got Network is unreachable. That was the situation when I wrote this morning. So I decided on a crazy solution. I still don't know why it worked, but it did. I re-installed Mandrake (chose update so I wouldn't lose all my other settings) and when it got to the network configuration, I used exactly the same parameters, addresses, etc as I had before. But for some reason, after re-booting, everything started working. I PINGed back and forth among the machines. Of course :-( the re-install broke my Internet PPP connection, but that was not a big problem to fix. After that, I set up SAMBA - another **unfriendly** task with only a few problems. So now, I can see my LINUX box from the WIN98 machine. I even installed my LINUX printer as a LAN-printer on the WIN98 box and printed with no problem. I even discoverd that in WIN98 Internet Exploder, I can log onto the apache server on my LINUX box so with almost no additional effort, I'm half way to setting up an Intranet. Now all I have to do is figure out how to let the LINUX box see the WIN98 since I want to use the CDRW on LINUX to backup my other computers. ;-) As I said before, when everything is set up, I'm sure LINUX is better than WIN98, but why is it so bloody hard to set up ???? Next project - setting up fax sending and receiving. > >P.S. I also had Spectrum ZX 32k Sinclair machine with tape recorder > and Basic in EPROM. I assembled it myself at home in 1990. I had mine in the early 80's. It was alot of fun but compared to what we have today, a real joke ........ -- //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 23-Mar-2000 Time: 20:24:47 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 7.0 machine //------------------------- ннннннннннннннннннннни unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
