[K12OSN] newbie

[Lewis Holcroft]

Will,

I'm sure plenty of folks can/will help. That is one of the things I 
love about this list. Everyone wants this project to be a success. I 
know I do.

You mentioned that you tried to follow the default setup. Does that 
mean that certain options that the documentation indicated should be 
available were not presented? Or are there items you turned off?

If one of the NIC's is not working, then it is either unsupported by 
linux or broken. If you send along the NIC types to the list you will 
likely find out which it is. It could save a great deal of hair and 
time to go by a supported NIC rather than trying to troubleshoot an 
unsupported item. It could also be the NIC is very new and the drivers 
were not available when the CD's were made. If this is the case then 
it's time to build drivers. (scary at first but very satisfying).

When your system boots a log is created. Take a look /var/log/dmesg it 
is full of info (greek if your new to this) that can help determine the 
problem. Post it here and we can help you debug it.

Lewis

On Jul 2, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Will Hatch wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am a teacher at a small school who is attempting to break from the 
> cycle of not being able to upgrade operating systems and hardware for 
> budget reasons, by installing the k12 terminal server.  I only 
> initially intend to have 7 thin clients to start.  I took our best pc 
> and upgraded the RAM to 1 gig, installed a second network card, and a 
> new hard drive with plenty of room on it.  I bought the k12 cd package 
> and installed it to my new server.  While installing, I tried to 
> follow the default setup as much as possible.  Now, I've managed to 
> activate 1 of the nic cards (eth1), which is directly connected to my 
> cable modem.  The way I understand it, out of the other nic card, I am 
> to have a cable that connects to my hub.  I can't seem to get this 
> activated.
>
> Truthfully, I am going to need some help getting this thing up and 
> running.  Over the years, I have become better than average with 
> Windows, but am very new to Linux.  Eventually, I would like to 
> implement content filtering to the internet access and set it up so my 
> students only have access to certain applications.  Can anybody take 
> the time to walk me through this?  Thanks!  -Will
>
>
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