Hi,
here's a new entry. And here are a few questions already. I have installed
right now my brand new RedHat 5.0 which I purchased from RedHat. To those
of you who have some time and patience: will you help me please, if you
can? :)
The ftp installation didn't work - exactly as in 4.1. I managed to get an
old 1x mitsumi cdrom, and everything went fine - with a few exceptions.
The ethernet card had a conflict, so I couldn't configure the network at
installation time. I played with the dip switches and got it to work, but
I'm definitely not sure about how I should configure it.
I ran "modprobe ne" and the card was found. I then manually added routing
information with:
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
and the network started working. I launched netscape under Xfree and I was
able to browse the internet through the proxy (wingate) residing on my
win95 box.
But now, what is the official way to let linux activate the ne2000 card and
the correct routing?
Another problem is win95 relative instability. I am running a win95 box
that acts as a tcp/ip proxy, fax server and answering machine. That is, a
normal win95 box with WinGate, Symantec Winfax 8.0 and a USR Sportster
33.6k. Additionally, it acts as a print server with a HP 720C printer.
What I hate is that I often return to the office to see that the win95 box
has crashed. Not surprising, ok; but the most important thing is the calls
I have missed.
I know that Linux can act as a print server - and I want to discover how to
do it myself. The same goes with samba - I got it to work, but some
tweaking is definitely required to avoid full root access to linux being
granted to any win95 user.
I also know that IP_masquerade can be a fair substitute of wingate, and it
looks like plenty of HOWTOs is provided on the redhat CDs about that.
But the real question is: is there some way to make linux accept incoming
calls through the serially connected USR Sporster/Voice, discriminate
between voice and fax calls, receive faxes, store voice messages?
Additionally, since I'm running Linux on a blind box, can that data be
shared across the network in a common format?
Thank you very much in advance. I'm pretty much in the learning phase; I
will share any findings that should turn out to be interesting for anybody
in the future.
Thank you!
Marcantonio
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