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Gowator,

 

erm sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but yes, when I kept getting the problem of the "line 150 speedtouch.sh", for a while the only way I could cure it was to re-install the whole OS.

 

This added to my annoyance at having to wait for the speedtouch to re-initialise between OS's so I got a modem router from http://www.solwise.co.uk/modems.htm called a SAR110 and a network card from pcworld.

 

Even then, being totally new to network type stuff, I just couldn't follow what they were telling me to do. So I just rang Solwise, and someone in the technical dept talked me through the proceedure for both wind0w$ and mandrake linux. I was up and running in less than 10 minutes. they also run their own forum with was mega helpful for post install set up stuff.

 

I can't enthuse enough about the modem/router, it's excellent. I've only had to reboot once in the time i've had it (got to be about 9 months now) and i can happily jump between OS's without a concern in the world.

 

regards

 

John

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my origanal problem was that my usb bus was shot, would not even work under windows in fact it crashed every time the modem started..

 

so with a new computer i managed to get it to connect with the built in mandrake wizard.

 

but would not connect there and then, but it did when i re-started,

though mandrake still said that it was not connected, but when

i typed ifconfig i had

 

eth0 on ethernet

lo :which i think means loopback

ppp0 :with my ip address and everything

 

but when i tryed to browse the internet it just said unable to resolve host?

 

Was able to type in yahoo.com's ip address and connect to their main page, But when you try to move on you get unable to resolve host. Even with shorewall off.

could this be the DNS

 

hope some one can help

 

madmanc

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:D :D :lol: :D

 

got it sorted!!

 

it took a coupple of weeks and i learnt a lot about linux!!

the first problem was a broke pc well everything worked but the

usb?.

 

the second was all i had to do is use drak connect i think its called and it

configed the modem its self, the mistake i made is that you have to enter

your dns servers manualy, which could be a problem if the isp decides to change theres.

 

i tryed Steve Scrimpshire tuttorial to the letter but was never able to get the

modem_run ect command to work, but thats proberly because im such a neewbie

(do you have to do anything to mgmt.o to get modem run to work?).

 

i would like to say thanks to everyone who has helped me over the last few week

i have learnt alot

 

thanks all

madmanc

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