Home
| Calendar
| Mail Lists
| List Archives
| Desktop SIG
| Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Blog | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU |
We've decided that we should give Mediaone a try here at home, and I'm looking for the best current info on how to set it up for a site with one linux machine and one W95 (involuntarily half-upgraded to W98 ;-) machine, each with an Ethernet card. One problem: Last night, I asked AltaVista where I could find "+howto +linux +windows-95". It gave me a long list of URLs, and every single one of them got a "not found" reply. Anyone know a good archive that can actually deliver this HOWTO? We've also been having a bit of fun on our third try to get the W95 system to use its Ethernet card. For various reasons, it seems to have both IE and Netscape installed, and both of them report "unexpected error" in trying to contact the linux machine. There seems to be no clue as to what the error might be, but I have a good idea: I've been noticing that nowhere in any of the install windows have I ever seen any place where I can type in the W95 machine's IP address. One of the things that I (think I) installed was called "Mstcp.ddl", and it asked me to reboot the machine before it would work, but never did it mention anything so mundane as an IP address. Anyhow, if anyone knows of a good HOWTO on configuring the W95 side so that it actually talks IP and can connect via TCP to things like the telnet and http port, I might find it interesting reading. (I'm also wondering whether this might be a good opportunity to finish the upgrade to W98 that several other packages have attempted without any advance warning. Maybe it's a good excuse to upgrade linux, too. ;-) There's also the general question of how do I tell the Mediaone people I want the cable modem installed. Presumably when they see there's a W95 system here, they'll insist that they can only install their stuff there, but I'd like it to talk via the linux machine, of course. We'd rather not have to pay for two cable modems, one for each machine, though I get the impression that's what the mediaone folks would really like to sell us. Is there a good email address at mediaone.com that I should know about? Or maybe a web page with a checklist. (I did check out http://www.mediaone.com/, and none of the various browsers I have here could make the least bit of sense of the page. I examined it with a little http debug tool that I've been writing, and it showed me the headers and data that was sent. It's about the most demented bit of non-html that I think I've seen so far. A javascript routine with an embedded applet that generates a few <IMG> tags, but no <A>, <MAP>, or <FORM> tags anywhere to be seen. Strange. Does it produce something sensible for anyone?)
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups | |
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities. |