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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Re: Help with Network Settings in 6.06, Puleeez !
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Whilst perusing Usenet on 5 Mar 2007 03:33:40 GMT, I read these words
from Joe LaVigne  :
>On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:24:41 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>
>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>>>> What goes (if anything) in 'Location' ?
>
>Different "profiles".
>If you need different settings at different locations...

Right !
Like 'home' and 'office' ?

Thats OK then, I don't do 'office' anymore . . .
>
>>>> On the various tabs in Network Settings.
>>>>
>>>>General
>> Domain is IP address of the Laptop ?
>
>No.  Domain is whatever you want it to be, though.  home.com, or
>home.local, or whatever.  Just so long as it is the same on every
>machine on your LAN.

Thanks, got that now.
>
>>>>DNS
>> 
>> Running 'ipconfig /all' in DOS on the Win network returns :
>>  
>> DNS Servers : 192.168.1.1 (ie the USR9106 Wireless router)
>> Search Domains 
>
>That's what you need, then.
>Your router is forwarding the DNS requests to the ISP.

Yes, I could see my ISP address in the router settings
>
>>>>Hosts
>>>>127.0.0.1 localhost tango-t21
>
>127.0.0.1 is fine.  I just checked my machine and see the
>127.0.1.1 in there, so it should be fine.
>I just never saw it before.
>
>> Should I delete one of these entries ?
>
>Leave it...

I had actually deleted - 192.168.1.10 tango-t21
(which I had put in) before I read this. Seems OK !
>
>>>> Any help appreciated. I've been at this for over two weeks now,
>>>> in which time I've managed to get an Internet connection twice.
>>>> 
>>>> But of course, on re-boot I lost it again . . .

But NOT NOW !

I appear to have a working connection at last !

Don't ask how or why, the only thing I believe that
I did was to 'de-activate' and then 'activate' the
connection but I have Internet access, even after
a couple of re-boots.
>> 
>> From 'somewhere else' . . . . . . .

>> "and add the word ndiswrapper to the end of this file and save it. 
>> 
>Ahhh.  I don't use ndiswrappers, so I'll assume you should follow those
>directions.  I thought you were referring to the networking config files...

Well I went in there and commented out (#) the etho entries.
This laptop has a modem but (strangely) no network card.

However, it appears to now be OK.

Much obliged to you for taking the time to help me out (again !)

-- jjj
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