On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 11:26, Mark Robinson wrote: > 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!) If your running X 4.x make sure you are using DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) which can really speed up graphics on X, don't know if its related to opengl, but i've had good results since enabling it on my ati and my matrox card based machines. Go into the XF86Config file (Which can be in a whole miriad of places but try /etc/X11 first) and look for a line loading the DRI module in the modules section and add one if there isnt. (Make sure you back up XF86Config multiple times with obscure names in case it all goes pear shaped) > > 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 > If you want 'real' internet access you can add the default gateway by doing something like this.
route add default gw 192.168.0.1 which will route packets via your gateway which should then munge them with nat and kick them out the modem then unmunge then back to your linux box when they come back. Thats the theory anyway. Remember to add lines in your /etc/resolve.conf for the nameservers so that you can do name lookups from your linux box. You might want to make sure wingate has correct acl's set up. HTH David > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
