I hope I will be forgiven for wasting bandwidth; I want very much to express
my gratitude to those developers, documentation writers, and others, that
Gentoo is such an excellent distro. If three is anything I can figure to
do---possible documentation or perhaps an ebuild or two---I want to do so.
For right now, let me send my thanks to all. I cannot express my good
feelings well enough about the solidity of my new install.
I have gotten Gentoo running on a new machine (my fourth install, I think),
and it all went well---better than ever! I am highly pleased...
I was even able to connect to a WPA encrypted network with minimal hassle,
using excellent instructions availalbe in the docs, forum, and wiki. It
went more easily than a year ago.
My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with my IP
number a local one, assigned by the router. Is it reasonable to set this up
so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so I can set up other
machines to print over the local wireless net?
ASIDE: I can't speak too highly of the solidity of the install. Maybe
partly because I now understand the Gentoo system better, I have not had to
ask many questions. When something troubles, it is easier to figure out
why. I don't want to bog down in a discussion of other distros and the
fiddling that led to nowhere; suffice it to say, Gentoo just works, for me,
as long as I am willing to put in the time, and my other efforts were less
satisfactory.
Thank you!
Alan Davis
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
