Just utterly confused about ICS and linux clients!

[maruwas]

I received my 256 Sentech device today! How to get internet access on my linux box?

The scenario:

I have two machines, machine A (running XP corp == crap) was used to install the MyWireless device (USB connected) and Machine B (Linux Mandrake 9.2) was setup to use machine A as a gateway..... Well the rest you all know about! MTU and proxy's and all that ****e about not being able to browse the net on the Linux machine. I dont know what to do anymore, which is the best, and how do I go about to get it working with the "USB" connected MyWireless device?

Some details on my setup:

Machine A:
XP (SP1 NOT INSTALLED)
ip addy: 192.168.0.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
ICS enabled

Machine B:
ip addy: 192.168.0.2
subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.0.1
dns or nameserver: 66.18.68.1 or 66.18.65.1 (obtained with ipconfig /all)

These machines are connected via a cross wired network cable.

Should I use the device on Linux? How? Where do I get drivers and how relaible are they?
Could I fix this problem sothat my linux machine could access any port and addy through the existing XP machine?

Please help this forum says allot of things but nobody suggests the best and easiest solution out of the lot! If XP is going to restrict things, maybe I should get help from some of the guys on this forum that has got it working on linux.





Thanks in advance!

 

[Wireless2]

SP1 on xp is a must !!!!!

could not get it running without

 

[maruwas]

And after SP1 how did you get it working?

Please be specific....

Thanks in advance!

 

[TheRoDent]

After SP1 on XP you install http://rodent.za.net/MyLinuxDrivers and connect the modem to your linux machine rather.

That is, if you're up to things like kernel recompilations etc. If you're not that kind of person (and no, I don't think you're going to get kernel recompilation help here) then you're going to have to suck it with Winblows XP SP1 and ICS unfortunately.


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[privet]

If TheRoDent's USB driver is not an option for you, then get the ethernet cable and run PPPoE on your Linux machine.