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RE: So What Now (was RE: FW 2] ethernet card)
Use HylaFax for faxing. (Look on Mandrake rpm contribs or
www.hylafax.org). It's the most advanced fax server for Linux available.
Also the one with the most features AND Windows clients.
It's setup can be a bit strange, but I can help you there.
Schlomo
PS: Probably your problem with the NIC was that you didn't set up routing.
If you don't do that, you get exactly what you got.
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:
> On 23-Mar-2000 פופוב יבגני wrote:
> >
> > Let me suggest some easy solution: I have a spare COM 3C509 ISA
> NIC
> > which known as relatively effortless to configure under Linux. I can
> > exchange it to Intel.
> Thanks for the offer, but I finally solved most of the problem. In case
> anyone is interested, as I wrote this morning, I decided to **steal** a
> PCI card from one of my other machines. This card was immediatelly
> recognized and configured by Mandrake, but trying to configure
> networking crashed the machine a few times. And when I tried to PING
> I still got Network is unreachable. That was the situation when I wrote
> this morning.
>
> So I decided on a crazy solution. I still don't know why it worked, but
> it did. I re-installed Mandrake (chose update so I wouldn't lose all my
> other settings) and when it got to the network configuration, I used
> exactly the same parameters, addresses, etc as I had before. But for
> some reason, after re-booting, everything started working. I PINGed
> back and forth among the machines. Of course :-( the re-install broke my
> Internet PPP connection, but that was not a big problem to fix. After
> that, I set up SAMBA - another **unfriendly** task with only a few
> problems.
>
> So now, I can see my LINUX box from the WIN98 machine. I even
> installed my LINUX printer as a LAN-printer on the WIN98 box and
> printed with no problem. I even discoverd that in WIN98 Internet
> Exploder, I can log onto the apache server on my LINUX box so with
> almost no additional effort, I'm half way to setting up an Intranet.
>
> Now all I have to do is figure out how to let the LINUX box see the
> WIN98 since I want to use the CDRW on LINUX to backup my other
> computers. ;-)
>
> As I said before, when everything is set up, I'm sure LINUX is better
> than WIN98, but why is it so bloody hard to set up ????
>
> Next project - setting up fax sending and receiving.
>
>
> >
> >P.S. I also had Spectrum ZX 32k Sinclair machine with tape recorder
> > and Basic in EPROM. I assembled it myself at home in 1990.
>
> I had mine in the early 80's. It was alot of fun but compared to what
> we have today, a real joke ........
>
>
>
> --
> //-------------------------
> Shlomo Solomon
> E-Mail: solomon@barak-online.net
> http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
> Date: 23-Mar-2000 Time: 20:24:47
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