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Misc. Probs



Problem 1 - are you using DHCP inside your network?  Is the DHCP Server
giving your linux machine a name server address?

	Shel

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:31:12AM -0400, Ryan Norris wrote:
> Been working on getting all my toys running in Linux...have given up on
> my TV card, as for some reason the i2c module wasn't installed
> originally - and I haven't felt like recompiling quite yet...
> 
> But have had other issues -
> 
> 1.  The box i'm running is sitting behind a windows gateway (NAT), and
> linux keeps resolving it's nameserver as that gateway address - when in
> fact i need it to resolve the ip addresses of my ISP's DNS as
> nameservers.  But every time i reboot the machine (i'm dual booting with
> win98 for some applications i still use over there) it trashes the
> resolv.conf file and sticks with the NAT gateway as it's lone
> nameserver.  i went as far as making resolve.conf readonly - but it
> didn't help.  any ideas?
> 
> 2.  Audio.  MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc, work fine, crystal clear on my SB Live!
> BUT - Cd Audio doesn't work.  It works under windows, but not in linux.
> the mixer has everything unmuted...is there a kernel module for CD audio
> i should know about?  would it be presumptious to assume that it is
> usually isntalled by default with the kernel anyhow?
> 
> rjn
> 
> 
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