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From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New member
>
> Heh! The man pages are in your computer.
>
> Open a shell, aka a terminal... like opening a command.com or cmd.exe
> shell in Windows. Then, if you want to learn about a command, line
> 'mount' you type 'man mount', and press 'Enter', and instead of
> executing the command, it will open a man page for the command 'mount',
> for you.
Ahhh....just like the old DOS help files....I see...
> These man pages were written for programmers, and they are quite terse,
> but once you get used to the format, they are very useful, because they
> are all written the same way.
>
> > 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:
>
> I'm not even sure what you mean by a network driver. Most NIC's
> autoconfigure, when you boot up... they run on devices like eth0 and
> eth1, and use TCP/IP, which is native on *nix installs.
>
> To set your IP addy for your eth0 device, if you are running a graphical
> desktop, try clicking the Fedora icon ('Start' menu in Windows, then
> selecting something like 'System Tools | Network Device Control'
I will take a look at it tonight when I get off work - thanks.
> Assign eth0 an IP of say... 192.168.0.100
>
> Then, manually assign one of your Windows boxes on the LAN
> 192.168.0.101. You have to take Windows boxes off the Windows Networking
> auto-assign for IP's, and put it in the 192.168.0.X range, with your
> *nix box.
>
> Then open a terminal on the *nix box, and type 'ping 192.168.0.101' and
> you should be able to successfully ping with Windows box... assuming the
> LAN was working for the Windows boxes previously. To stop 'ping', use
> Crtl-C'
>
> Once you can ping back and forth, you know you have a network connection
> with TCP/IP, and you can work on playing with ssh, ftp, and eventually
Samba
>
> This is stuff I just finished working the bugs out of a few weeks ago,
> so I have it fresh in my mind.<g>
I'll let you know how it goes tonight.
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