Hi All I have 2 PC's running RedHat V7.0 Linux and win4lin and win98 FE. I took up the offer of the free upgrade to the V3.0 desktop and the installer was downloaded. The PC at home installed just fine but the install at work fell over very quickly. The PC at work is behind a corporate firewall so the installer can't get through the firewall on port 443 and hence the install fails. I particularly want the TCP/IP interface at work so I can use the network neighborhood functionality and to also use a product that uses port 1302 and requires full blown windows networking to work at all. I noticed that the install on the home PC left the /var/win4lin/installer_tmp behind that had the Win4Lin-5.2.2a-d.i386.rpm and the RedHat Kernel RPM so I asked support for a suggestion of how to install without installer network connectivity. Win4lin support suggested uninstalling the current win4lin via RPM and install the Win4Lin-5.2.2a-d.i386.rpm and run a couple of shell scripts and then run the installer. I gave this a try and the installer said that the installation was up to date, so I then loaded the windows CD and the base windows install. I then un-tared a backup of the ~/win/* over the top of the new windows install. All worked as before and the winsock interface worked fine so I was able to use Lotus Notes as before and receive mail etc. I then issued the win_network -v command to configure TCP/IP and all seemed to work fine and I installed the MERGE/NIC adaptor, TCP/IP protocol and the File and printer service and gave the machine a static IP address of 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.255. I then rebooted but the MERGE/NIC refused to come up. The MERGE/NIC uses IRQ 10 and IO Ports 300 - 31F. I saw that IRQ 10 was used by my sound card so I went to the BIOS and configured IRQ 10 and the IO ports as ISA legacy resources to reserve these for the MERGE/NIC. The MERGE/NIC still refuses to come up and when I look at it under Resource Manager it says the device is not working or the drivers have not been installed. The drivers have definitely been installed though! At home I dial into work and win4lin works just fine using TCP/IP and IP masquerade on the PPP interface. The LAN at work is token ring but I would think that this would not be a problem as the MERGE/NIC also works with PPP and Ethernet interfaces. Any suggestion as to how to fix the MERGE/NIC? Where to from here? I was thinking that I could tar up the /opt/win4lin/* /var/win4lin/* ~/win/* and /etc/default/* directories from the home machine and transfer the files to the work PC just in case I have missed something from the 'faked out' install at work. The other alternative I can see is attaching a modem to the work PC and installing via PPP to get a real install going. There is an outstanding problem regarding install through a corporate firewall which is being worked currently by the win4lin folks. Of course I could wait for this, but as I said I really need the TCP/IP connectivity on the windows platform. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments to assist. Kind Regards John Penny _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
