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assign an IP to wireless pci card. preferably via DHCP

pingüino
Hi Im running slack 9. 1 and trying to connect to my netgear router via the netgear wg311 wireless card. I can get the card up and bind it with the router. Problem is, i cant give it an IP this command always report a 'host lookup failure' Code:ifconfig ath0 net 192.
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Windows 2000 and ASP-Linux networking

iceflame
hello, I have just installed ASP-Linux on my laptop and i carnt work out how to network it with my windows 2000 pc. i feel that i have a good understanding on networking. . . well just with windows ;( I have setup a proxy server to share my internet connection.
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Update kernel Help Please

hunkykernel
Hi Guys, I'm a pretty new to linux, and have ben trying to upgrade my kernel. I have a dual boot system with winxp pro & Redhat 9 Shrike. kernel 2. 4. 20 am I right in thinking I should be trying to do this.
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I wounded my system with fdisk...

Furrry
I decided to try and increase the size of one of my partitions, and deleted a couple that I don't use that were next to it in preparation to expanding it somehow. hdb6 was full, and hdb7 and hdb8 were empty, so I killed the latter two with fdisk.
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Linux on Acer Aspire: HELP ME

WhiteHawk
Hi, i'm a newbie. I have installed linux Mandrake 9. 2 Downaload Version on my Acer Aspire 1203X (i have also WinXPpro). My problem is: When i start linux, he start all, but after he have start the eth0, he start the PCMCIA but he make nothing, for 30, 40, 50 minutes.
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Messed up the Panel

hollywood63
I'm running Blag a Red Hat 9 distro. I removed one of the little divders that is in the lower panel. Now when ever I open something that program does not appear in the bar so if I minimize it it disappears completely.
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no sound on RH 9.0

A Cow
hey. . ive been trying to get sound on RH9. . but its not working. . ive ran the autodetect thinggy. . and every time i try and play the test sound it dosnt play anything. . . im using onbord sound on the asus A7V8X-X mobo.
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mini-disk +fedora

matttah
Anyone know if they work with linux. . . i have Fedora and my friend want sme to put some songs on his minidisk player. . . . its a sony one that uses that net md software. . anyone now if the device will work in linux/ Daum.
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login problems... for mandrake...

CrossShen
i installed mandrake 9. 2 on my 3rd harddrive ( after some changes. . . ) and it is configured and every thing is fine but it will not take my password such as if i was to put in the login then i hit enter for the password line my keyboard does not work the enter and control+alt+del but it wont work, did i do somet ...
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backgrounds?

matttah
anyone have some nice ones they'd like to suggest for me? i'm getting tired of digitalblasphemy's backgrounds. Daum.
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yum experts!

matttah
I have two questions: Can you skip files after you've started to update?(like when i'm try to update my orig fedora, it has 159 update available, but mozilla sometimes can't find a server and it stop the entire yum update command, can i just push a button or somethign to just skip that file? ) Second, since yum did ...
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woot got it working....

matttah
Got my new dvd installed, and installing linux as i type this=p windows sucked having to be in it. . . anyone know any reason why my dvd drive was affecting the performance of my cd burner drive too? They both do feed into the same cable but still.
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kde on gentoo

taeuler
I recently installed gentoo, which is great, but I've had some trouble getting kde setup. The emerge on kde worked, and I can get xwindows up, but i'm having trouble starting kde. When I run startx kde opens, but gives the error: Quote:Could not start kdeinit.
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Can't reboot after installing a Lynksys lne100tx.

taeuler
I just configured a Lynksys lne100tx, and ran into two problems after setting it up Suse. Fisrt I plan to use this to connect to the internet through a window xp machine, which didn't work, the second problem is that on reboot, Suse hangs, when it tries to start the network card.
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2 problems

pureandeasy
I'm newby with Linux. I've installed it but I have 2 problems: -with my ATI radeon 9200 -with my Modem Motorola Speakerphone 56k (internal on Com3) thanks, Matteo.
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What is the best MiniDV Tape?

CyberGenX
I just bought this camera > Canon XL1S It takes MiniDVs. I am wondering what is the highest quality tape you can buy for it. Price isn't an issue. I just want the best as I will be filming some important footage.
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Advertising getting carried away ??

Recharge
ok, yet another inturusive ad has been added to ntcompatable, it's starting to get annoying. . anyone else agree? look, I know they have to get cash to keep ther place running, but things are getting beyond a joke now.
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