On Tuesday 18 December 2007 14:22:23 Richard Wright wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a few problems I was wondering if anyone could help with? > > The hardware is a toshiba laptop from 2000 with 1.2ghz, 512m ram, 20gb hdd, > a dial up pci card and a lan card. OS is slackware 11. The ctrl key doesn't > work, so I'm sending it off to get fixed before I sort anything else. > > 1)Connecting to the internet > > I've successfully installed linux a number of times now, but I'm not sure > how to get it hooked up to the intenet. > > There are several internet access points I can use: > > a) A dial up connection at my parents home. Forget dialup. You'll regret it if you choose this method.
> > b) ADSL at the university (will probably require legit login ID) > Speak to Network Services at the uni for login details > c) A wi-fi connection in my flat from my neighbours. May be encrypted. If they give you the password, then you're onto a winner. > I do want to get internet access in my own flat, but BT want £120 from me > first. Before I do that, I want to make sure I know how connect to the net. > > 2)Connection hardware > I'm also going to buy a new wi-fi card so I can use my laptop anywhere > there is a wireless network, and I wondered if anyone knows of a good > generic linux compatible wireless card that comes with required drivers if > necessary. Something compatible may be found at http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatlistcat29.html. As with any hardware purchase, a significant amount of googling and general research should ensure that you find a card that works nicely with Linux. > > 3)Kernel configuration > A lot of the hardware doesn't seem to register on linux. Specifically the > internal dial up modem doesn't seem to register. This may be because the > kernel is not properly configured. I've had a go at kernel configuration, > using a menu, but most of the options are not intuitively named. I'm > looking at "the linux kernel" which is good theory, but it doesn't directly > solve the problem at hand. See above about forgetting dialup. Lucent modems, and generic laptop modems, are renowned for being either crap, or unusable in anything other than Windows. > The priority is to connect to the internet. If I can do that, then a lot of > other problems are more easily solved. > > = Kyle _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish