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

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:09 AM 4/24/2007, you wrote:
>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? ;)

Linux users are so possessive over their preferred brand, aren't 
they?  :)  Mention Red Hat in a room full of Fedora guys and you 
better cover your ears, or vice-versa... brag about Fedora around a 
gaggle of Red Hat experts and you'll need earplugs as well.  It's all 
the same operating system.  If they didn't work the same, you 
wouldn't have a million Linux servers on the web all performing the 
same operations.

Regardless of the team name or version, I won't recompile or rebuild 
any part of the system just to get everyday features working.  Linux 
should not require programmers to operate it.  I *really* don't mind 
doing stuff like that, but I just don't have time if it's going to be 
a requirment for simple features such as using a dial-up modem, or 
connecting to an enormously popular network.  I can't see tens of 
thousands of people who use Linux having to go through recompiles of 
the core or any module, so I must assume that the features are 
already built in somewhere.





-- 
Roger Taylor