[UCLA-LUG] suggestion for install fest

[Joshua Barratt]

Depending on what type of network card you have, it should be fairly
simple. There's a tool called linuxconf that you must run as root -- go to
networking, basic host information, and then you'll see "Adaptor 1". Check
"enabled" then for "config mode" select DHCP. Yuo can leave everything
blank, but the "Kernel Module" line needs to be set to the proper module
(like a driver) for your card. You'll have to figure out which one . . . I
think there's an auto-detect thing in mandrake, but the other folks will
have to back me up there.

	Josh

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Ty Kaing wrote:

;I'm using Linux Mandrake 6.1 and my connection is the dorms.
;I really don't know what to do.
;----- Original Message -----
;From: Joshua Barratt <jbarratt@ucla.edu>
;To: <linux@linux.ucla.edu>
;Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 11:50 PM
;Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] suggestion for install fest
;
;
;> Well, it'd help if you gave us some info about what type of connection you
;> have, (ppp? dsl? dorms?) what distro/version of linux, and what (if
;> anything) you have tried already. But yes, unless you have a spectacularly
;> odd problem, we probably can help.
;>
;> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Ty Kaing wrote:
;>
;> ;Hi,
;> ;    Can you help me with linux?  I have it installed but I can't seem to
;get
;> ;the internet to work.  Can you help me?
;> ;----- Original Message -----
;> ;From: tchow <kodiak@linux.ucla.edu>
;> ;To: <linux@linux.ucla.edu>
;> ;Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:23 PM
;> ;Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] suggestion for install fest
;> ;
;> ;
;> ;> Norman Danner wrote:
;> ;>
;> ;> > Since there's an install fest coming up, *and* the LUG is thinking of
;> ;> > putting together a UCLA distribution, it might be interesting to have
;a
;> ;> > questionaire at the install fest asking people what they would want
;in
;> ;> > a distro.
;> ;>
;> ;> Most of the people who come to the installfest are relatively new to
;> ;linux.
;> ;> a survey that can correctly show us what people want in a distro would
;be
;> ;> great, but i don't think the newbies would be able to give us this very
;> ;well.
;> ;>
;> ;> > Possibly give some choices of some of the larger things and
;> ;> > ask for them to be ranked, making it clear that not all of the large
;> ;> > packages can be in a single distribution.
;> ;>
;> ;> we cleared out a lot of room in the redhat distro.  so we could put in
;> ;lots
;> ;> of new/large packages.  again i don't think newbies know what they
;want.
;> ;> (the installees that i've helped don't know what to say to "kde or
;> ;gnome?")
;> ;>
;> ;> >  Maybe ask what would be
;> ;> > necessary in a Linux OS to convince a person to scrap Windows from
;> ;> > his/her machine altogether.
;> ;>
;> ;> if we knew what people really needed in order to toss windows, it would
;be
;> ;> great.  If you truthfully ask them, I don't think normal people
;actually
;> ;need
;> ;> too much of linux for it to be a windows replacement, but the real
;reason
;> ;> they are clinging to windows is because they don't want to learn
;something
;> ;> new.  Anyway, let me sum up what your typical windows user
;uses...(taken
;> ;> scientifically from studies of my roommate and 'dows using friends)
;> ;>
;> ;> icq
;> ;> word processing
;> ;> mp3
;> ;> email
;> ;> www
;> ;> solitaire
;> ;> graphical file manager
;> ;>
;> ;> the above is already well implemented in linux, unless of course people
;> ;> insist on using MS word...
;> ;>
;> ;> so why do "normal" people use windows then?  probably because the world
;is
;> ;> structured so that people gravitate towards windows...
;> ;>
;> ;> tchow
;> ;>
;> ;> >
;> ;>
;>
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;-
;> ;> > norman
;> ;ndanner@math.ucla.edu
;> ;> > "Strides of chaos"
;> ;http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ndanner
;> ;> >
;> ;> >     Department of Mathematics    University of California, Los
;Angeles
;> ;> >                              ----
;> ;> >                  The sun, with all those planets
;> ;> >                  revolving around it and dependent on it,
;> ;> >                  can still ripen a bunch of grapes
;> ;> >                  as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
;> ;> >                    -- Galileo
;> ;>
;>
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