I bought an inexa ISW050t, 802.11b wireless router to share my ADSL internet connection with my roommate. I plugged it in, started my computer in Win2kpro and followed its simple instructions. This involved opening a web browser and logging into http://192.168.62.1, which is apparently the IP address for a router. It all worked flawlessly. I "cloned" something (a MAC address?) and my computer immediately started working exactly as it had before in Win2k. All tcp/ip connections worked fine. I stuck the USB wireless device I had bought for my roomie's computer in her USB slot and it worked, eventually. (She has Win98SE and it wanted the Windows CD, which we don't have, so I had to bail on whatever it was trying to install, but regardless, she now has a connection the router upstairs, via the wireless controller.) So everything is good. EXCEPT, when I then tried to boot to FC1, I can no longer run either KDE (my prefered environment) or Gnome. There are a few errors on boot, including: NTPD: Synchronizing with time server [FAILED] Shrug. KDE, when it starts to open, says: There was an error setting up inter process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /home/trevor/.DCOPserver_29:2a:ff_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! Then, eventually, KDE goes away and I get back to the login prompt. I can't remember exactly what the symptom/report was with Gnome but I do *NOT* get back a login prompt when I try to boot to Gnome and I must use the reset button to regain control. I CAN boot to a "safe" terminal window. I don't have a clue what to do. Obviously Linux / Fedora / KDE / Gnome is looking for something that isn't the same anymore, presumably something to do with the hardware addresses of the router and / or ADSL "modem". Where do I start? What program do I run? What do I look for? How do I interpret it? What do I set and with what values? HELP! -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
