[Coco] Linux box needs ethernet connection to router/web/LAN

[Manney]

Roger Taylor wrote:

> As some of you might know, I have never gotten any Red Hat Linux version 

> I've owned connected to the web or to another computer.  In other words, 

> the main feature of Linux (networking) has yet to work for me.


...


> Can someone walk me through the steps they would take from scratch for 

> making Red Had 9 ready to connect to a router and on the web?


Why do you need to use RedHat 9? Can you upgrade to a Fedora Core? Or 
better yet, IMNSHO, can you upgrade to Ubuntu? ;)

Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04), which was just released, had good support for 
wireless but it depends on which wireless card your using as well. (This 
goes for any distro.) All I had to do with my unsupported card is 
install Ndiswrapper + the Winders driver and then Network Manager 
worked. With Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10), I had to do the Ndiswrapper stuff 
/and/ compile Network Manager, which was a royal pain in the arse.

...


> I've got etc/hosts set with hostname = localhost

> Is that correct?


Although it was setup by the install script, I don't have that line in 
my /etc/hosts. The relevant part of my script reads:


> mannequin at emil:~$ cat /etc/hosts 

> 127.0.0.1       localhost

> 127.0.1.1       emil

> ...


'emil' being my laptop's name.


> The eth0 device I think is set to use IRQ7.  The PC has a PCI ethernet 

> card called Network Everywhere or something like that, the one Walmart 

> used to sell for about $20.  It has always worked flawlessly for Windows 

> networking.


I believe that Network Everywhere is cheap Linksys. I seem to remember 
something like that for something I bought at Wally World about a year 
ago...

-M.