> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:
>> > Freedom Web Services wrote:
>> >> Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the
>> >> server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not
>> >> running.
>> >
>> > A more general network problem may well be the first cause of your
>> > problems.
>> >
>> >> I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when
>> >> I use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded
>> >> 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'.
>> >> When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh
>> >> samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm
>> >> I get loads of confiction errors.
>> >
>> > It's much preferable to use yum these days. There's no need to
>> > download the rpm or deal with dependencies manually.
>> >
>> >> I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software
>> >> Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive
>> >> software infomation' error. When I try to use yum with the command
>> >> 'yum install samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot
>> >> find a baseurl for repo: core'.
>> >
>> > This looks like you have a more general networking problem on the
>> > system. Have you tried to run 'yum update' yet? I'm guessing
>> > you'll
>> > get a similar error about the core repo. If so, you should check
>> > first that your network is working correctly. If it is, then you'll
>> > need to look into the reason yum is not working.
>> >
>> > Once yum is working you should be able to run 'yum install samba'
>> > (or
>> > Add / Remove Software) to get it installed.
>>
>> My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
>
> That's why 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software Updater' from the
> 'Applications' menu aren't working. They use yum as the backend and
> that's configured out of the box to get packages from the Internet.
>
> For a way of using yum and 'Add / Remove software' using the ISO images
> used to install the system instead of network repositories, see:
> http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages
>
>> I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my
>> windoze
>> box.
>> I have installed the drivers for this modem, eciadsl, and configured
>> it
>> for
>> my modem and AOL but I can not get it to work.
>> I have looked on the net and found that I need a module called n_hdlc
>> in
>> order to get this to work, the standard FC5 does not have this module.
>
> It's in the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel though. Try downloading and
> installing that update. Much easier than recompiling the kernel
> yourself.
>
> Paul.
>
Thanks for the help Paul.
I have downloaded and installed the 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernal update but
unfornatunatly this does not solve the problem. The eciadsl-doctor
program
still shows that the n_hdlc module is not found, it also reports that I
am
using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernal, how can this be when I have just
installed the updated kernal with no problems? Am I missing something?
