Thanks David. Still waiting for the activation. Yes it is a winme box.
I should be able to disable everything like you said on the nick for the
cable, but keep everything else on the nick for the rest of the home net
then? I only want to use winme to install the dang thing, then switch
everything over to linux. I am not looking forward to setting up that
windoze ICS sharing.
Regards,
Keith B.
David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On August 22, 2001 12:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Yes, that would be appreciated if you could. Please reply
>> if I need to contact you offlist to pay for any shipping,
>> costs, etc.
>>
>> As a newbie, could you point me in the general direction of'
>> how to set the card up to use DHCP. I know the cable ISP will
>> be assigning a dynamic IP.
>
>I think you mentioned that this would be going in a winme box so unless
>anythings changed since the last release just select tcp/ip properties for
>your nic in the network control panel. On the first tab select 'obtain ip
>automatically', disable the dns in the dns tab, turn off any wins... and
>unbind file/printer sharing to the nic on the bindings tab. You'll then have
>to change your computers name to some ugly letter/number combo assigned by
>@home and you'll be up and running. Of course these things do come with
>windows instructions.
>
>In linux, you could use dhcpcd (man dhcpcd).... otherwise pretty much any
>network configuration utility will work (eg. webmin). Just set the nick to
>use dhcp. Unless it gives you an option to pass a hostname you'll have to
>change your hostname to that supplied by @home. You can always manually edit
>the dhcp ifup scripts if you're desperate to keep your hostname.
>
>David Aikema
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