Mandrake 9.2 on Presario 2175
Hi everybody, I'm new not only to this forum but to linux at all.
I'm using mandrake 9.2 and I've spent a whole morning in trying to figure out how to get ACPI,Internet & samba working on it.
ACPI: as I installed the distro, I was never acknowledged of its existence. However, I saw that I needed to set particulars parameters on lilo. I did it, and at first boot didn't worked.
I rebooted again .... magic! I got it! (mah...) (but not when logging in as root) WHY????????
INTERNET: I planned to use adsl connection sharing from windoz. I've a D-link switch, who links my modem, my laptop and my pc. PC is 192.168.0.1, laptop is 192.168.0.2 both with same netmask. What shall I use for connecting in MandrakeControlCenter? ADSL plus LAN? and what about DNS?
SAMBA: I need to share my windoz printing. I installed the whole rpms about samba, but I still got error messages when shutting down Mandrake. I really know very little about it, so I'm very confused about where to start.
Really thanks!
Alessio
please forgive my bad English, I'm Italian...
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