----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:20 AM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New member
> Hmmmm... a familiar name.... are you the Norm Higgs on the 1PCBuilder list? Yep, that would be me! > Welcome to the list. As to 'not knowing squat'... the more I learn, the > more I realise how little I actually know.<g> LOL - same here! > I have been using Linux Red Hat for several years, now (since Red Hat 7 > ...currently running RH Enterprise 3) and also have two Win2k Pro > workstations on my mini-LAN, behind the RH Internet-connected machine's > firewall. This is more secure than having each machine connected to the > Internet router, unless you have a firewall in the router. > > At the moment, I am using a dial-up modem, but next week I will be > getting a DSL connection, and plan on connecting the DSL modem to a > 'NETGEAR RP614 4-Port Cable /DSL Network Firewall Router', and from > there, to my various computers, once I am sure its firewall is doing its > job properly. I've been rather undecided on whether to just buy a commmercial router/firewall, or put together an older pentuim pc and put smoothwall or some other 'nix based router/firewall. > > I'm sure I will have lots of dumb quetions to ask, but I'll do my best to > > figure it out myself before asking, I promise. > > Make sure to visit the List FAQ at: Been all through it already. > http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/linfaq.html > > ...to see if the answer you seek is there, and to consult the man pages > in your Linux installation before posting a question. Google is also > your friend. LOL - I have no clue how to consult my man pages! I saw that mentioned many times but nothing to clue me into how to do it. I didn't even know there were any man pages. > Also, if you figure out the answer to a question you had, all on your > own, it is a good idea to post your discovery here, because this is a > newbie list, and there is a good chance that if you were puzzled, so > might other list members, newbies themselves... be in need of your > discovery. The main thing I've been looking for is the network driver. I found references for where to find it in the 2.4 kernel: "For Linux kernel-2.4, IP100 driver can be found and initiailized by a compatible Fast Ethernet driver "sundance.o" under the net module directory. Its source code is under /usr/src/linux2.4/drivers/net directory." But I have the 2.6 kernel and there is no directories listed under /usr/src, and a file search for sundance.o turns up nothing. A google search didn't turn up anything useful either - at least, nothing that I could comprehend, that is. But I'm still working at it... Norm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h9nqfve/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123030579/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
