networking woes

[Killerpenguins]

Won't be able to find the error message for a while,  it is a single 
boot machine (scrubed hd and installed RH8)  Mandrake 8.2 worked fine 
on these and from what I am seeing on the web it probably is a video 
issue with some of the newer sis drivers. My networking is the big 
issue as I have multiple machines in tear down mode (redoing computer 
room) when room is done I plan on scrubbing most wintel boxes and 
putting various nix's on them. (Redhat 8/9 Mandrake 9.1, love to put 
gentoo on one to try to get more comfortable with nix)  I will probably 
keep Win on 2 or three exclusivally (certain windows only programs) and 
dual boot my game machine.  I have some lofty goals but little time to 
learn them, I went from NT to Win98 for the games but I like the 
networking and the stability so that is Linux.

Linux goals
1 get comfortable with it (regular desktop)
2 have a portable Linux system (can be secured in case of theft)
3 custom configure my kernel to understand it better and use things 
like the iscsi standard
4 Build my network to set up and test servers and configurations

This weekend I will try to reinstall Mandrake and see what is wrong, 
may try do minimum install to test video debate.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
Subject: RE: networking woes

> I use Gentoo and Mandrake. I watch DVDs on my Gentoo machine.
> No need to boot to 'doze to watch DVDs. RH is fine as an OS for
> a Newbie. I'd like to know what the error message is on the
> Mandrake modeprobe problem. If you can find the error that would 
> be a major step in fixing it. if you can try booting to Mandrake
> and then after it locks up boot into RH, you might look in the
> 'dmesg' file. Something like 'tail -n200 dmesg |less' from a console
> should show you the last 200 lines of dmesg which is a log of the 
> boot 
> process (more or less complete). You will need to find the point where
> the mandrake stopped communicating and the RH begin booting.
> 
> HTH,
> Brian
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Killerpenguins [lerninlinux at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:13 AM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: networking woes
> > 
> > 
> > I have an ECS desknote 1.6 512mb ram and 40 gig hd.  I had a 
> > 10 gig on 
> > it with Mandrake 8.2 and it worked fine as my primary internet 
> > machine/email desktop. I upgraded the hard drive because now I 
> am 
> > trying to use it more as a laptop. I would prefer not to just 
> use 
> > Windows 98 on it, since I have booted into Win since December 
> only 
> > about 5 times to watch a dvd, now I have a dvd player.
> > My problem is this,  my network (including my Windows gaming 
> machine) 
> > is named one thing with dhcp,  my parents network is named 
> another 
> > thing with Windows and dhcp, my brothers and brother in laws are 
> > entirely fixed ip's with yet two more workgroup names.  There 
> are two 
> > ranges of private ip address (196.168.123.xxx and 
> > 192.168.1.xxx) and in 
> > one case two subnet masks (two nat devices one wired and one 
> > wireless).
> > I have currently installed RH 8 and tried Mandrake 9.1 (locks up 
> on 
> > reboot at modprobe) I would prefer Mandrake as I still am too 
> > much of a 
> > newbie(ie. I am the only family member using Linux and I work 
> > 7 days a 
> > week making it hard to attend the meetings).
> > I am trying to figure out if this can be done and bring the 
> > desknote to 
> > the next installfest (please recommend most common os among 
> regular 
> > attenders) to get help with it.
> > I will probably just leave RH on till then, since I have Linux 
> for a 
> > while now I am getting to the point where I am getting 
> interested in 
> > the guts and how to configure it.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Randal 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > majordomo at kclug.org
> > 
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