hello everyone, just to start let me say I am brand spanking new at linux. I've only played the games on it. Never anything more. I was recently given a SUSE 7.0 linux computer, and a source code for a text based game(mud). I have a windows xp computer, and two network cards, and some crossover ethernet cable. I want to set it up so I can use Zmud(a mud client) to log into the linux box and play my game, without having to go online. Can anyone tell me how to set this up step by step? please remember, I dont know ANYTHING about linux. I need to install the card, and the drivers, and then set the IP I guess. I dont know. Someone please help. I have read all the documentation that came with the computer, the pamphlets were tiny and said nothing about networking, I searched online and just didnt understand what it was saying about KDE and star X stuff. If anyone can send me a step by step, where to go instruction I would trully appreciate it.

Jerry Workman.
jerryrd@hotmail.com

I hope SUSE is properly installed, it boots and you can log in? If so, insert the NIC (PCI one, if possible - there's nearly very high probability it will be detected without any more efforts). Turn the machine on, boot to suse, log in (as 'root').

Now, if you're in graphical mode, open a terminal (konsole, rxvt or any other similar program). If you're in text mode just type the commands below. The commands are (IP address: 192.168.1.1):
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
Now, when teh Windows machine is configured to be Ip like 192.168.1.2, you should be able to ping the machines both ways. From Linux, it's
ping -c 4 192.168.1.2
(it sends 4 pings to 192.168.1.2)

If it doesn't work, please copy the whole output (probably there were error messages) and post it here.

Don't forget to set up both boxen to have static IP addresses, and be on the same subnet (IE 10.1.1.0/24 and 255.255.255.0). Or else they won't find eachother.

B.