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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by MeatHead:
I can't get my network card to work (Mandrake doesn't recognize it) so I can't get on the net when I'm in Linux.
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What make/model of network card do you have?

 
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I don't even know how to navigate through the filesystem enough to copy anything from a floppy.
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There are a few ways you can do this. KDE (I think Gnome too) has a floppy icon similiar to Windows.  KDE will automount the floppy a display the floppies contents when you click on the icon just like in Windows.  It may not automount but in KDE if you right-click the floppy icon you have an option to mount/unmount the floppy.  

In UNIX a floppy has to be "mounted" before you can use it.  From a shell prompt an example of mounting the floppy might be "mount /mnt/floppy" assuming you have the floppy device set up in your /etc/fstab (file system table) and "/mnt/floppy" is the mount point directory.  Once mounted you will find the floppy directory structure under the "/mnt/floppy" directory.  There is another way if this is a DOS FAT formatted floppy.  If you have the "mtools" installed there are some other commands that can read the disk without mounting.  "mdir" is the equivelant of "dir" in DOS and will give you an MS-DOS directory listing of the disk. "mcopy" is similar to a "DOS copy", "mcopy a:FILENAME.EXT /tmp" would be similar to "copy a:FILENAME.EXT \temp" in DOS.  But the "mount/umount" way is standard accross all UNIX systems.

 
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But, our internet conection goes through one of those linksys cable/dsl routers which, I believe assigns a new IP address to the computer every time its started (at least it I think it does under windows).  Is this thing even going to be compatable with a linux machine?
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Yes it will work.  Dynamically assigned TCP/IP configuration is called "DHCP" (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).  When you get your network card working you would configure it for "DHCP".

I'll try and help get your network card going.  Must be an odd card for the recent Mandrake not to recognize it. And the HOWTO doc penrod pointed you to looks pretty good.

[ December 16, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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