I am really new to all of linux but I have read enough to get it going. Ok I am running Slackware 9. My wheel is not working on my mouse. I edited the xf86config file to IMPS/2 and still no wheel. No biggie I will live. I have a cirrus logic crystal WDM on board sound which KDE isnt finding. My netscape cant do java I downloaded a .bin file from SUN to upgrade my java but I have no clue how to use .bin files. And Last of all I have 2 enternet cards and would like to make a proxy server out of this machine. Any suggestions on a good proxy server program? Thank you for your patience with this newb

for the java the go to the shell and type
chmod a+x j2re1_4_1_version-number-linux-i586-rpm.bin
then
./j2re1_4_1_version-number-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Merlin, you are a gentleman and a scholar thank you

Proxying, which under Linux is usually just called NAT, or Network Address Translation, is actually part of the kernel, the program used to manipulate it is iptables. Do a google search for "iptables nat script" and edit a good one to suit, then stick it in /etc/rc.d/ as rc.firewall and it'll get executed at boot. Then you may want to start a dhcp server for your internal network possibly... that's a little more involved, but has been covered here a number of times... hmmm... there's also the iptables how-to, but as it is also used for firewalling, connection tracking, bandwidth throttling, fair queing, etc, ad-nauseam... there are a lot of things to it.

Luck,

Finegan

For a good proxy, check out Squid : http://www.squid-cache.org/ ..
Also, for the Cirrus Logic Crystal WDM audio you'll need the i810_audio module (Intel ICH audio support) .. Try loading it from the console first then start KDE after and see if that works .. Hope this helps ..

For your mouse wheel you can add Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" to your xf86config file to allow this to work. My mouse section looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

I tried to get quid working but with no luck. However I did do what you told me finegan and it worked.... kinda

On my other machine I can ping external IP addresses but can not get external sites to come up which leads me to believe that I am not getting DNS on my second computer. It is static and I have the DNS pointed to my linux box.

ok i found a proxy server program is called whizzed or something like that you can find it on http://linux.tucows.com but i never tried it so i don't know what is like best thing you can do is download "Narc" you can find it in www.freshmeat.net and that's really easy and it works pretty well too

For your sound, KDE has sound muted by default, which just might be your problem. See here for more info:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...oot#post332513

Yeah, you're not running a nameserver on your linuxbox... you can, but as Bind historically has issue and djbdns is a little hard to set up, its best just to edit /etc/resolv.conf and add your ISP's nameservers... You should be able to get them off of the main machine's /etc/resolv.conf

Cheers,

Finegan

Works Great thanks finegan