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| justice 2006-03-27, 7:53 am |
| Well yesterday I got myself a laptop, an Acer 3003WLMi. It's not bad
exept I had a hell of a time installing linux on it mainly most distros
I tryed didn't accept my onboard ethernet. It would detect it corectly
like the name of the card but it would not talk to my network. the only
one that wold wor out of debian, Ubuntu, and SLackware was slackware.
all the others saw my nic but no ping no nothing? it bogles my mind.
Another question is I have a firewall running IP COP, If i were to put
in a wi-fi card in it would it then be all I need to make a wirless
router? So I could use the laptop anywhere without having to but a
wirless router, seeing as I have a server doing that job.
TIA
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| On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:01:08 +0000, justice wrote:
> Well yesterday I got myself a laptop, an Acer 3003WLMi. It's not bad
> exept I had a hell of a time installing linux on it mainly most distros
> I tryed didn't accept my onboard ethernet. It would detect it corectly
> like the name of the card but it would not talk to my network. the only
> one that wold wor out of debian, Ubuntu, and SLackware was slackware.
> all the others saw my nic but no ping no nothing? it bogles my mind.
> Another question is I have a firewall running IP COP, If i were to put
> in a wi-fi card in it would it then be all I need to make a wirless
> router? So I could use the laptop anywhere without having to but a
> wirless router, seeing as I have a server doing that job.
>
> TIA
Suggestion: try the Knoppix Live CD (or Live DVD) - it has excellent
hardware detection, and can be installed to hard disk. This is often the
easiest way to do a Debian install.
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| Crunch 2006-03-27, 7:53 am |
| justice wrote:
> Another question is I have a firewall running IP COP, If i were to put
> in a wi-fi card in it would it then be all I need to make a wirless
> router? So I could use the laptop anywhere without having to but a
> wirless router, seeing as I have a server doing that job.
>
> TIA
IP COP has the BLUE network specificly for wireless. The manual will help
you set up the wireless card and describe how to allow your laptop to
access your wired computers on the GREEN network.
--
Stephen S.
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| justice <foisysnospan@telus.net> wrote:
>Well yesterday I got myself a laptop, an Acer 3003WLMi. It's not bad
>exept I had a hell of a time installing linux on it mainly most distros
>I tryed didn't accept my onboard ethernet. It would detect it corectly
>like the name of the card but it would not talk to my network. the only
>one that wold wor out of debian, Ubuntu, and SLackware was slackware.
>all the others saw my nic but no ping no nothing? it bogles my mind.
>Another question is I have a firewall running IP COP, If i were to put
>in a wi-fi card in it would it then be all I need to make a wirless
>router? So I could use the laptop anywhere without having to but a
>wirless router, seeing as I have a server doing that job.
>
>TIA
not that its relevant now that you have your linux instaled on the
laptop, but, the "failure" of the other OS's to work with the nic
might have been due to them using IPv6. Iv'e seen that happen a few
times now recently, depending on nic and network.
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| justice 2006-03-27, 7:53 am |
| keith wrote:
> justice <foisysnospan@telus.net> wrote:
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> not that its relevant now that you have your linux instaled on the
> laptop, but, the "failure" of the other OS's to work with the nic
> might have been due to them using IPv6. Iv'e seen that happen a few
> times now recently, depending on nic and network.
ok how do I fix possible problem as to make use IPv4? I am more of an
debian guy, I like the apt-get stuff.
TIA
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| keith 2006-03-31, 12:13 am |
| justice <foisysnospan@telus.net> wrote:
>keith wrote:
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>ok how do I fix possible problem as to make use IPv4? I am more of an
>debian guy, I like the apt-get stuff.
>
>TIA
on a recent RedHat based distro, ( Red Hat 9 i think) grepping finds
this:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global:#NETWORKING_IPV6=yes|no:
controls global IPv6 initialization (default: no)
or you could have a look at http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
keith
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| justice wrote:
> keith wrote:
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> ok how do I fix possible problem as to make use IPv4? I am more of an
> debian guy, I like the apt-get stuff.
>
What kind of problems did you have? I have a 3003LM running Unstable.
I don't use it heavily, so occasionally I have a hundred megabyte
upgrade to do, which usually breaks Gnome. Apt-get -f install normally
kicks some sense into it, after Synaptic has given up in disgust and
a reboot fails to start X.
It was about three months ago that I installed it, after trying Ubuntu
with very little hardware success. I recall it took me about an hour to
get networking going, but that was due to difficulties in finding my way
around Ubuntu and getting root permission in /etc. I don't recall any
networking problems in Sarge, apart from the fact that if you don't run
the expert install and don't have a DHCP server you don't actually get
any networking. But that's true on any hardware with the new installer.
I think IPv6 is a red herring.
You can do a hard-drive install from Knoppix, and I tried that, but
the upgrade to Unstable is quite a jump, and stands a fair chance of
killing the system. At one point I was down to neither keyboard, mouse
nor touchpad working. A single-user boot was required to deal with X.
Something I don't like about a Gnome Unstable is if there are any
problems with X, it will try to start six times, wait two minutes,
repeat until death of Universe. Despite having twigged that something
is wrong, it will keep trying.
Knoppix 4.0 uses a 2.6 kernel that standard Debian has never used, so
you either stay not-quite-Debian or risk the nearest Debian kernel
upsetting something in Knoppix. Knoppix is a mix of Testing and Unstable
and is a bit exotic in places, so I decided to back out, reinstall Sarge
and stay with pure Debian. I've never got round to standby/hibernation
stuff, but the networking and sound seem to work, as do both touchpad
and USB mouse, so I'm happy enough with it.
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| Peter Nachtigal 2006-04-10, 8:00 am |
| justice wrote:
> Well yesterday I got myself a laptop, an Acer 3003WLMi. It's not bad
> exept I had a hell of a time installing linux on it mainly most distros
> I tryed didn't accept my onboard ethernet. It would detect it corectly
> like the name of the card but it would not talk to my network. the only
> one that wold wor out of debian, Ubuntu, and SLackware was slackware.
> all the others saw my nic but no ping no nothing? it bogles my mind.
> Another question is I have a firewall running IP COP, If i were to put
> in a wi-fi card in it would it then be all I need to make a wirless
> router? So I could use the laptop anywhere without having to but a
> wirless router, seeing as I have a server doing that job.
>
> TIA
Hi
Sorry for being late, but i have the same laptop. Works great for me with
SUSE 10. No probs at all. I had only to install ndiswrapper the wlan card.
Probs with lan on board were according to acpi. set acpi=noirq on boot and
try again. I usually use wlan connection thus i'm using that option only
for accessing foreign networtks.
Cheers
Peter
Ps: I,m also stuck with twinview, but i'm on it.
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