I tried the other day to set up my network card that hooks to an adsl
connection, but I am snowed by the terminology. Is there anywhere on
line a simple dictionary of the terminology, or whatever I need. I
can connect the thing on MS Windows, but Linux seems to want to know
so much more.
Just the first example: MS seems to name my machine Doug McGa
unless I don't know what MS is doing--not surprising, I suppose,
and Linux wants to call my machine something like localhost @local
or something like that. It gets hairier from there.
Please, somebody, say in plain english what I have to do to get the
system on the internet via adsl. These are the ONLY parameters I
have available to me:
username
password (assigned by isp)
IP address: DHCP
DNS1: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2
DNS2: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx3
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Incoming mail(POP3): popmail.<isp>
Outgoing mail: smtp.<isp>
My internal lan address: 192.168.1.1
I would really appreciate someone translating the
nic setup routine to this background, or tell me where
the dictionary is, and what do I answer when the answer
is not available.
I would really like to be back on Linux instead of this
BG-Bomb, but I have to make everything work first. When
it was just an external modem, it was not hard, but now I'm
snowed.
Thanx to all who try to help. --doug
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