Linux Users?
Chris90
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Hi i'm currently using Ubuntu Linux after being fed up of the same old crashes on windows.
However i cannot seem to be able to share my internet connection with other computers as I get an eth1 not ready message.
Anyway I realise this is a mountain bike forum so I'm not asking about how to solve this but does anybody have any links to a good guide on how to do this, for a complete beginner. I have tried google but it seems I may need a degree in order to understand any of it.
Any help at all is appriciated.
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However i cannot seem to be able to share my internet connection with other computers as I get an eth1 not ready message.
Anyway I realise this is a mountain bike forum so I'm not asking about how to solve this but does anybody have any links to a good guide on how to do this, for a complete beginner. I have tried google but it seems I may need a degree in order to understand any of it.
Any help at all is appriciated.
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<h6><center>What's the first sign of madness?</center></h6>
<h5><font color="red"><center>Suggs walking up the garden path..</center></font id="red"></h5>
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when you installed it, was there an option to use as an internet gateway or something? seem to remember there was an option with redhat and with suse. infact, i used to use an old pc as a hardware firewall at one point before i had a router and wireless rig.
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Chris, Linux is (less so these days, it has to be said) picky about which networking hardware it can use. If you have a wired network, for about œ10 you can pick up a decent D-Link or 3-Com network card. For wireless... you're on your own, sorry!0
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I'm tryping this from Firefox in Linux that I installed yesterday...
Installing and setting up Ubuntu is a piece of piss but sharing a network connection may be trickier than the usual web browsing/sending email... You may need to investigate Samba - I think that's the windows compatible network sharing type thing.
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Thanks for the replies.
Decided not to use the linux machine as the 'router' as it were. As it will now be used on the network as a online shopping machine as it is safer than windows.
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