Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> I have a most unusual problem having to do with Internet Sharing in LM
> 8.0. This is the first such problem since I installed and configured
> Internet Sharing in Lm 8.0. I would very much appreciate your
> troubleshooting on this issue.
>
> Here is what's going on:
>
> NORMAL OPERATION:
>
> Normally, I first configure my ADSL, usually during Install. Then,
> during initial bootup and thereafter, I see both eth0 (3com 3c905B) and
> eth1 (Linksys "tulip") officially recognized during bootup:
>
> "etho identified"
> "eth1 identified"
>
> Or something to that effect. I then log into the console (runlevel 3),
> then log into KDE, click on Internet Connection. That connects me to the
> network (my IP is Mindspring/Covad). And the Internet Monitor clearly
> shows all three tabs for eth0 and eth1 and ppoe CONNECTED.
>
> I then go back into Mandrake Control Center, Internet Sharing, run the
> Wizard. It find my second eth1 card (tulip), downloads the necessary
> Internet Sharing programs and, voila, it's done ("enabled"). And that's
> the last time I need to bother with configuring Internet Sharing. It's
> best, from my experience, not to try to reconfigure it or, unless you
> are a computer programmer, things will quicly blow up in your face. It's
> best to do this right after Install so that if something goes wrong, you
> can reinstall your system and do it right. That's why I do it once and
> then leave it alone. Whatever connection problems I have after never
> seem to affect Internet Sharing. It remains solid and reliably
> configured and always "enabled."
>
> My dual-boot Tiger AMD k6-2 (LM 8.0/Win98) with ADSL is connected by
> means of a hub and crossover cable and patch cables to our second
> computer, a Toshiba Win98. As I said in my previous letter, once this is
> set up properly, it can weather any storm, even when the IP is down. And
> it has held up flawlessly until now.
With your dual boot system, LM 8.0/Win98, that when booting into Win98
you must change the BIOS "PNP OS =Yes" and when booting into LM 8.0 you
did not go back into the BIOS and changing to "PNP OS =NO". Well this is
just a wag because I have a friend that this happens to quit regularly
with his system and a ESS based ISAPNP sound card. Without this change
in the BIOS this card will not function.
Larry
>
> THE PROBLEM:
>
> Now, for some ungodyly reason, after following the same procedure above
> that has always worked before, things have gone awry:
>
> When I boot up, neither eth0 nor eth1 are recognized. Nothing is said
> about eth0 at all, and eth1 gets the error message: "device unknown" or
> something to that effect.
>
> I have tried removing both ethernet cards from my system, replacing them
> back one at a time, reversing their location, etc. This only makes
> things worse. My original installation of the the ethernet cards remains
> the best one, the one that has always worked in the past.
>
> Yet, when I log into the console and then into KDE and click on Internet
> (Network Monitoring), I see eth0 and ppp0 CONNECTED. I check and indeed
> I am online (ADSL).
>
> Now, here comes the weird part. I now go into Mandrake Control Center,
> Network & Internet, Connection. I open it to see if the settings are
> right. Then, suddenly, before my eyes, the eth0 and eth1 cards, which
> lack their IP settings, suddenly come alive like Frankestein's monster,
> i.e. the (correct) settings appear all on their own volition. I choose
> Expert and check my LAN settings. They are all there just as it should
> be. They would have to be. That's where the sudden appearance of the IP
> settings has come from. But how?
>
> I then look again in the Network Monitor and I see eth1 added to the
> list of tab entries and now all three (eth0, eth1, ppp0) are working and
> all CONNECTED.
>
> Now, the first time I did this, our second computer automatically
> started running ADSL. But, ever since, this manual intervention on my
> part has failed to launch ADSL on the Toshiba computer.
>
> What is going on, please, and is there a way to solve this problem. My
> instinct, such as it is in these matters, tells me that it's probably a
> very minor configuration issue, but I have no idea what and how to solve
> it. I have already installed our system twice with identical results.
>
> Finally, a question about LM 8.0's Internet Sharing Wizard. If you try
> to reconfigure it, as I have found out the hard way, it gets all messed
> up the second time and completely ruined the third time (i.e. second
> attempt at reconfiguring it using the Wizard). Is there a way to delete
> the Internet Sharing configuration MANUALLY so that I could then use the
> Internet Sharing Wizard to configure it from a clean slate?
>
> Thanks so very much. Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Benjamin
>
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