OK.

Um, the box that connects to the net has Windows XP on it.... Is there anything I need to do to get it to let linux access the net through it?

I would set my computer up as the server but I am going to be restarting a lot between windows and linux for a while. That would mess my family up if the were online.

Spurious, i know u r using RH 7.3 as ur gateway/router... did u get a kernel panic when running it?? I'm using RH 7.2 and i got a kernel panic once a while.

Please help

ftp://ftp.linksys.com/beta/linux_hpna2_0_v2_34_0_2.exe

that link doesn't work for me.

Oh, and I can't find my linux src in Mandrake 9.1. It isn't in /usr/src.

Jerrac: I just tried the linksys ftp link and it works fine for me. You can always check the http://www.homepna.org site if there's a more recent linux file. As for Windows XP as a gateway box, sorry, don't know anything about XP. My guess is that you need to use Internet Connection Sharing (which probably uses DHCP to serve ip addresses for your lan), and your ifcfg-eth1 on your linux box would look like:

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

As for your linux kernel source, did you install it? Try looking for your kernel source rpm package on your installation CD.

Woranl: no kernel panics here. I actually started with RedHat 7.2, but upgraded for 2 reasons: 1) Red Hat 7.2 has broken iptables; and 2) I couldn't find any reliable apt-rpm repositories for Red Hat 7.2.

Huh, it must have been down when I tried it.

would kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm be what I want?

It was the right file for the source.

But I got an error when I compiled the driver saying that it was made with GCC 2.whatever and I have GCC3 so it won't work. Has anybody figured a way around that yet?

Are you getting the gcc 3 error message when you compile il.o or when you attempt to insmod it? Please post your error message.

Um, I am pretty sure it was when I compiled it. I'll post the message in a bit.

[root@localhost david]# insmod il
Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/net/il.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/net/il.o: The module you are trying to load (/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/net/il.o) is compiled with a gcc
version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is compiled with
a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work.
[root@localhost david]#

There is my error.

I tried insmod -f il and it froze up.

Well, if insmod -f doesn't work, then you'll have to switch distros. Red Hat versions 8 and greater will also refuse to load the il module.

If you want to stick with Mandrake, you should be able to use Mandrake 9.0, which worked for me. You could then use urpmi to upgrade your applications.

Or you could consider switching to Knoppix, which works fine with HomePNA. The hard drive installation of Knoppix is incredibly simple and fast (run knoppix-installer from a root terminal, then it takes 20 minutes to install). It's based on Debian, so you have apt-get for your packages.

I know that Slackware 9.0 works with HomePNA too, but it's more work to set your hardware up than with Knoppix, which autodetects everything.

*sigh* ok. I'll try noppix I guess...

Well, I ended up not trying noppix. It's iso files were bigger than my blank cdr's.

So I tried Lycoris. It works!

Way to go!