I wrote from work and had to wait to go home to get answers My windows machine was broadcasting my entire hard drive to the other wireless users. I did a sysclean this morning and found a virus. So I am using my husband's machine til it is fixed. I downloaded a"connec to internet" from the centos site, but it did not help much my internet provider helped bit we went into 'network device controller " - that is blank went into "network config " profile is unclecked status is inactive device is ethoO nickname is etho type is ethernet we went into "hardware" desceiption is DLine type is ethent device is etho status is ok we went into " IPsec" profile type destination nickname all are blank we went into "DNS" hostname I types in localhost.localhost Primary DNS starts 66 Secondary blank Tertiary DNS blank DNS search path blank we wento "hosts" IP name and aliases are blank ------------ then I went into Mozilla Foxfire under preferences, connection settings direct connection is checked auto detect in unchecked manual proxy is unchecked HTTP proxy Port 0 SSL proxy Port 0 FTP proxy Port ) Gopher Proxy Port 0 Socks Host Port 0 socks vr unchecked socksv5 checked no proxy for [ ] I have some numbers as on the sheet I downloaded some start 255 some 192. I am just not certain which ones go where? thank you for writing. you were the only one to reply >From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> >Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] very new user having problems >Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:55:22 -0400 > >barbaara fberg wrote: >>I just loaded CentOS and want to connect to the internet using a radio and >>wireless internet. >> >>I got some numbers from the internet provider. He walked me through some >>of the changes in the networking area. But it did not work. >> >>I have read three books on Unix and I am determined to do this. but I >>think I need lots of help. >> >>Where could I look this up on a windows machine?? >> >>when I get connected to the net, then I have another question about how >>to make the jave download operational. >> >> >> >>thank you > >What numbers did you get from your ISP tech person? > >Are you using dialup, DSL, or cable to connect to the internet? > >-- >Mark > >"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found >a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough >to learn from his own stupidity." >============================================== >Powered by CentOS4 (RHEL4) >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos