Hello Welby, Friday, 23 November 2001, you wrote:
WM> Hello again everyone. WM> Two things really. WM> firstly i've got linux working on my laptop now (the one with the dodgy WM> hard disc). Mandrake linux would install fine(ish) and just would not WM> boot but i tried red hat which is working fine now (appart from some WM> immense slow down when using an openGL program....i've got one of those WM> rage mobility cards in the laptop which does support opengl hardware WM> acceleration thingy so i don't know why its slow!) WM> secondly. I unfortunatly have to use AOL to connect to the internet :-( WM> (it's my mum she like the colours or summat, i hate the need to use WM> there software, the ammount of spam, the ammount of adverts etc etc) WM> anyway :-), I have wingate running a NAT on my local network (wingate is WM> running on the computer 'server' (192.168.0.1)). I am wondering how i WM> would set up linux on my laptop (welby (192.168.0.4)) so that i could WM> connect to the internet using nat. Yes, wingate is also a web proxy so you could try adding 192.168.0.1 (and whatever port it's listening on) to your favourite browsers proxy settings. That will give you browser based web access only, but it's an idea if the default gateway stuff doesn't work for some reason... Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
