Re: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George writes: Thomas> I need basic references to get started. The problem: My Thomas> daughter's company has instructed her to install DSL to Thomas> facilitate working from home when she is on-call. She is Thomas> a system manager for a complex Tandem

Re: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread Brad Cramer
ober 22, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please > Well, I'm not a networking guy myself, but I'd recommend looking at the > Linux Network Administrator's Guide > (http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Linux/LDP/LDP/nag2/index.html) for > starters. I wo

RE: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread deFreese, Barry
ology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -Original Message- From: Thomas H. George,,, [mailto:georgeacct@;spininternet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Networking Help

RE: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please You need to set up a little gateway for your home, use debian and iptables, make sure to install debian with kernel 2.4 to use iptables. This will let you share your internet connection with all your pc at home. You can take an old

Re: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Juranich
Well, I'm not a networking guy myself, but I'd recommend looking at the Linux Network Administrator's Guide (http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Linux/LDP/LDP/nag2/index.html) for starters. I would imagine that has most of what you're going to need (maybe a little too much?). As far as hardware goes,

Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I need basic references to get started. The problem: My daughter's company has instructed her to install DSL to facilitate working from home when she is on-call. She is a system manager for a complex Tandem computer network - i.e. a computer wiz who doesn't know or care beans about Windows or

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-04 Thread Remo Badii
I use most: it just recognizes the .gz files and has more advanced features than less itself. Remo ___ | Dr. Remo |__ _ Debian User | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Badii | / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ | CH-5232 Villig

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread servis
*- Ralph Winslow wrote about "Re: absolute beginner !" | Peter Iannarelli wrote: | > | > Hay there absolute beginner: | > | > That pretty good for a first go around. | > | > To uncompress the .gz files. Use gunzip . | | Rather than that you could leeve them com

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Ralph Winslow
Peter Iannarelli wrote: > > Hay there absolute beginner: > > That pretty good for a first go around. > > To uncompress the .gz files. Use gunzip . Rather than that you could leeve them compressed thereby saving sapce, and gzcat wherever/whatever.gz | less > > Happy u

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread john
Brent McMillan writes: > Your modem should be found at /dev/SttyX where "X" is (modem com port - > 1). Eg, if your modem is on com 4, then you can reach it at /dev/Stty3. Make that '/dev/ttyS3'. If you have trouble getting your pp connection working with pppconfig email me. -- John Hasler [EMAI

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread john
Alain Cadenat writes: > I dont even know how to read the .gz files in /usr/doc Download and install the dwww package. You will then be able to read all the docs on the system (man pages, info files, and everything in /usr/doc) with a web browser. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Da

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Nov 1998q, Alain Cadenat wrote: > Thanks to all for your answers > > I am ok with .gz files now ! > But it appears I started the wrong way ! each time I want to read email or > access to the web I have to reboot and goes back to windows, then go back to > linux try etc.. > So first

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alain Cadenat wrote: > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. > It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for > a beg

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alain Cadenat wrote: > > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. > It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for > a beginner no ?) > But

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Brent McMillan
Have you tried using "pppconfig" (need to be root)? Your modem should be found at /dev/SttyX where "X" is (modem com port - 1). Eg, if your modem is on com 4, then you can reach it at /dev/Stty3. some people make a symbolic link ("ln -s /dev/SttyX /dev/modem") to make things easier. There's al

absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Alain Cadenat
Thanks to all for your answers I am ok with .gz files now ! But it appears I started the wrong way ! each time I want to read email or access to the web I have to reboot and goes back to windows, then go back to linux try etc.. So first thing is to get connected under linux. I tried to co

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/03/98 at 01:59 PM, "Alain Cadenat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hy all, >I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian >I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. >It runs properly on the same hard

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alain Cadenat wrote: > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. > It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for > a beg

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hay there absolute beginner: That pretty good for a first go around. To uncompress the .gz files. Use gunzip . Happy uncompressing. Peter Alain Cadenat wrote: > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed

absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Alain Cadenat
Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a beginner no ?) But now.. I dont even know how to read the .gz files in /usr