On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 11:47, David Irvine wrote:
> 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)
i'm not running X 4, is there a quick (and prefreably easy )way to
upgrade to X 4 ?
> > 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.
By Real I guess you mean NAT?
> 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.
I ran the command about (as root) and when i typed in 'route' i got the
following output
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.12.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
unfortunatly its still not working. It is definatly a problem on this
machine because it is working on my other client computer.
> Remember to add lines in your /etc/resolve.conf for the nameservers so
> that you can do name lookups from your linux box.
I've done this as well.
> You might want to make sure wingate has correct acl's set up.
> HTH
Yeah the ACLs are all fine
> David
Thanks
Welby
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