On Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:49, Kyle Gordon wrote: > 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.
I was goinf to argue this one, then I tried to rember the last time I used dial-up (a painful experience on a friends machine a year ago, I've not had dial-up configured on any of my machines for about 4 years now). > > > b) ADSL at the university (will probably require legit login ID) > > Speak to Network Services at the uni for login details ? I suspect the UNI is too small to be an ADSL provider and too large to be an ADSL user. Surely more likely that its just a routed connection over ethernet/wifi? > > > 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. It's polite to ask regardless. > > > 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. > ? Kernels aren't really interested in modems (except for those nasty hardware modems) have you tried pointing minicom at each serial port and seeing if you get a response to AT? C. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
