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

[Roger Taylor]

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.

What I want to do now is connect the dern thing to my Windows LAN and 
give it access to the web and possibly the other PCs shared folders, 
if anything.

I use a LinkSys WRT54G 802.11 wireless router with 4 ethernet ports 
on the back.  This works great from Windows, and it's a broadband 
router as well so every PC has access to the web automatically.

Since Linux is "supposed" to be smart like this, I assume I can 
connect that PC to the router and do minimal configurations to get it online.

The Linux box will be used for compiling CGI-BIN scripts mainly.  The 
CoCo Cafe is one of those scripts I need to update.  But I don't want 
to have to keep moving the binary back over to Windows just to upload 
it to my server.  This required in the past a common hard drive I 
formatted from Windows using FAT and then had it automounted under 
Linux.  (My Linux box is a dual-boot Windows/Linux PC), but I ditched 
the Windows drive recently in favor of laptops.

So, the old DEV1 tower PC, as I called it, is now just running 
Linux.  I will also get CCASM working for Linux if I can get my 
network set up right under Linux.

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?

By the way, I also recently upgraded the firmware on my LinkSys 
router to DD-WRT which is actually running under Linux on the 
router!  This hack is one of the best kept "secrets" for routers, and 
I've now got software power boosting for the antennas, the ability to 
act as a client to another router, and much more.  The modes are 
there for almost anything, unlike the limited modes of the stock 
firmware (which is already powerful, as it is).  So you can imagine 
why LinkSys has done everything it can to keep Linux hackers from 
taking control of newer versions of their router.  However, they keep 
doing it anyway!  :)

I've got etc/hosts set with hostname = localhost
Is that correct?
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.






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Roger Taylor