tidy max

Cheers :) not had chance to have a go yet, but i think ill go wireless, seems far easier really! Thanks Tootech!

Hi Tootech! Meant to reply yesterday, i managed to figure all that out actually, but thanks for confirming that i did the right steps!! I was worried that i was missing something! But guess what the next problem is, Yes i can change the ip address of my router from 192.168.0.1...BUT The router won't let any device with the address... 192.168.0.1 connect to it, also tried 'reserving' the ip address within the router, and i get a message tellking me that it is an illegal action. Bugger, so it looks like im getting another wireless adapter, i actually think ive got a belkin pci card somewhere in the coffee table from many moons ago! Thanks again for your help, if i mange to get any further ill post up a reply! Todays task was learning my first bit of C coding, been doing some tutorials on the net, quite interesting! Thanks again! edit: thinking about it, maybe the router behaves like this for when people connect multiple routers together? just something i was thinking about haha

Yeah the cross over cable needed quite a long run, so i ended up taking a box of cat5 home and making one up, i did the colour swap so its deffo a cross over! Yes i do have a netgear router, so that may be my problem! I did notice the ip range, and i have been experiencing conflicts, is the no way i can use static ip addresses to combat this? Also what about ip address forwarding?

Hi all, recently installed opensuse 10.1, thanks to help of Tootech off here! Just configuring it for internet access, basically i have a wirless network set up for my comptuers and consoles, and in my room i have one Windows pc wireless connected, and another computer running linux. So it goes, linux computer-----ethernet----> windows computer-----wireless---> Router any help is appreciated folks :) thanks

worked right away, changed the selector pin on the back and it booted from cd right away, the ide cable was connected to both the cd and the dvd drive, which i think may be where the problem was. Upon boot up i right away noticed the primary master text thing.. said cd-r as opposed to the previous samsung etc, and the slave text was blank. Thanks again, its much appreciated!

Fantastic reply :) i shall go and get cracking with that. The idea of a BIOS update came from me searching the net for answers, and i came across a forum where someone who was also having trouble booting from cd drive and it was due to an old bios version, after updating he could then boot! It was a long shot i know :) thanks for your help again tootech! Much appreciated

just checked, the cd drive which i am using is set to slave, the other pins on the back were master and ccsl or ccel couldnt tell what it said properly! Also the other bios boot option was LS120? any idea what that is? How do i go about finding my bios version/model/type (i really know next to nothing about bios!) and where could i get an update from? Are bios's (plural for bios? biosees? bioces? lol) specific to motherboards? or is the bios completely independant of the motherboard?

no, i considered compiling the 5 cd iso's and burning them to a dvd, but the computer i am installing to has two disk drives, 1 is dvd and 1 is cd-r, the dvd does not work. Thus why i am using the cd's! I will change the cd to the secondary master drive! Do you think this could be the problem as it hadn't even crossed my mind!! I will also unplug the broken dvd drive while i am it, no its not atapi, i will also check that now too! Cheers

dual boot or dedicated os im not bothered which! preferably get rid of xp to be honest! its not my 'main' computer as such, infact i just use it for streaming my films over my network! i do think my bios is rather old, the options i can choose to boot from are scsi hdd0 hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 floppy zip lan cdd disable and one other which i can't remember! i can go and check now if that information is neccesary, i expect i got it from a torrent, but also possibly direct from the opensuse site, i downloaded it a long time ago, which explains why its 10.2 and not the newer 11 version! thanks for your help tootech :)

Hi everyone, i got the linux itch again tonight and finally decided to scratch it haha. So i burnt my suse 10.1 iso's to CD's and proceeded to try and install it on one of my computers. The computer is running windows xp home, the computer recognises the cd and i can browse the files, but will not auto run and there is no setup file that i can open on the cd either. So i changed my bios settings to boot from my cd drives, on 1st 2nd and 3rd attempts, and it still just boots xp regardless! Do i need some driver or program to enable home to be able to recognise the linux set up file? Your help is very much so appreciated, and i eagerly await your reply so i can get cracking with the installation! Thanks very much, Max

sorry to jump in on the thread, have you had any luck wardy as i also am having a similar problem, how would you go about finding bios/motherboard updates? and how do i find what model, version etc motherboard/bios i have!

oh dear :( well thats a shame!, thanks for your help folkes, and sorry to be a pain creating two threads related to the same thing, i didnt think they would both because by the same fault, thanks again for your help, useful as ever!

oh dear :( well thats a shame!, thanks for your help folkes, and sorry to be a pain creating two threads related to the same thing, i didnt think they would both because by the same fault, thanks again for your help, useful as ever!

yeah i totally uninstalled it, sorry, ive got 4 computers and alot of mixing and matching used to go on, i did it a couple of years ago and cant remember what i did with what, but yes, removed the old display card and totally uninstalled it, sorry. How am i jumping ahead? the problems do not relate to me fitting the card, its been installed for about 2 years now, and the problems have been happening for about 2 months. cheers

and i take it back, there is no vga output, i mistook a sneaky serial port for one, even though it only has two rows of pins, silly me! Sorry!