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Topic: playing with linux...
started by: hal0

Posted by hal0 on Feb. 12 2001,19:24

ok can someone please help me out here, anyone intelligent with linux, please respond.

anyways, here's the deal: i installed vmware and redhat in that. (if you don't know, vmware is a virtual environment where you can load alternative operating systems while still in windows)

i'm messing around with redhat, i go into linuxconf, and i make a PPP account for my Earthlink account. I also set the DNS servers, and I open up netscape. I try to load a page, and woohoo, it is working.. however, it's showing it's loading at about 300bytes/sec and it stalls out at about 2k. wtf is up with this thing? help me out.. thanks

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Posted by Spydir Web on Feb. 12 2001,20:56

that's probably a VMWare thing. Because running Windows (atleast 98 and below) is really running 2 OS (Win32 and DOS), and then running Red Hat kills your CPU and other hardware. So somewhere a long the line your modem's taking a hit, or it might be that pppd or something just can't work with the hardware kill. it could also be you setup the configs wrong (try to manually edit things, I've found linuxconf's to be pretty nasty editing stuff like hardware configs).

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Posted by hal0 on Feb. 12 2001,21:09

there's no way it's a vmware thing.. i have 384mb ram, and i allocated 128 to vmware. it runs linux smooth.. trust me.. and in win2k i usually get about 5.5k/sec

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... that's what I think, but hey.. what the hell do I know?

Posted by Spydir Web on Feb. 12 2001,22:16

Then if you swear it's not VMWare (Sorry, just part of my religion (Possibilitist) to look at all alternatives with a "possible" look

), then it's probably linuxconf or something. Tinker with it some, check out linuxdoc.org for the HOWTO's, and ask if you're still getting problems.

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