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quark
10-01-2002, 08:43 AM
I currently have a wireless router hooked up to my cable modem and two windows computers that are on this LAN so they can access the internet. What i want to do is get my Linux machine running on the same network so i can get online with it. I just installed an ethernet card and it seems to be working, but what do i need to do to get it online? do i need a certain hostname? how do i find out?
btw the router is a linksys.. if that helps..
IsaacKuo
10-01-2002, 12:23 PM
I'm a newbie, so maybe my answer will be clueless...
If your Linksys router is set to more or less default settings, then I think the domain name doesn't matter. All that's needed is to set your computer's ethernet card configuration to use DHCP and that is all.
I know network configuration is part of the initial Mandrake 8.2 install program, but assuming you don't want to reinstall...
Is network card configuration accessable from the "controls" utility on the desktop?
Also, I'm assuming the wireless Linksys routers work more or less the same as the normal Linksys routers.
quark
10-01-2002, 04:31 PM
yes i have it set to DHCP but it still doesnt work.... do i need to do something for DNS entries? or do i need to find an IP for DHCP? like of my router? does it have one? how can i find it?
..im not sure if im asking the right questions... so i asked a bunch...:D
quark
10-01-2002, 04:36 PM
YAY for tinkering!!! ...not exactly sure what i did... but i think it was changing the IP of the dhcp client.... but anyway... it works now!! wooo-hoo!!:D :D :D
EDIT- look! my first post from an actual linux machine!!!:D
IsaacKuo
10-01-2002, 04:44 PM
Again, bear in mind that I'm a newbie who knows little of networking...
I do not think you need to set any DNS settings as long as you're using DHCP (using a static internal IP is another story).
You do not need to enter the IP of your router into anything. The router needs to be set up as a DHCP server, of course.
Oh, perhaps your Linux machine is erroneously set up to be a DHCP server itself? Only one DHCP server per LAN will work out. I guess if the Linux machine is set to be a DHCP server then it would get confused.