Re: eepc waste of money

On Mar 9, 2:58 am, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:09:17 +1000, The Real Andy



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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:57:08 -0800, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andy wrote:

Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:29:59 +1000) it happened The Real Andy
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Just went out and bought an eeepc , eeepc701 for a trial. Bought the
cheapest unit, with linux. First impressions were good. ASUS has done
a great job with the UI. Very easy, very straightfoward. Does not take
long to find you way around.

OK, confirmed.

So next step is to try and get internet connectivity. I am a
consultant, so working on a clients premises makes things a bit tough,
but I have a vista laptop and a 3g wireless modem. First step. try get
the 3g modem working. Its a sierra wireless. Spent a couple of hours
then gave up (for now).

I use a Huawei modem with a Vodafone subscription.
Worked perfectly first time in the native Xandros Linux, the driver was
already there. All it needed was user and password stuff.

I have a Huawei as well, but using a sierra wireless. I managed to get it
working after stuffing around with it for half an hour or so this morning.

Decided to try internet connection sharing via
vista.

There is your problem, Vista.

Vista works fine for me, never had a problem

Microsoft does some weird things with their networking. Like using
non-standard ports for DHCP. One Vista system sharing a network
connection with a second one may work with an oddball configuration and
the user will be none the wiser. But bring another type of system into
the picture that expects a standard port number and everyone thinks its
that system that's broken.

There was two issues, one being the Internet Connection Sharing did
not work via ehternet. The second issue was wireless did not work.
Both were unable to lease an address from the DHCP server. In the
latter case its a netcomm router that works fine with everything else.
I also tried it on a linksys router with WPA, same deal. Have not had
time to look into it yet but will get around to it soon.

Internet connection sharing is MS specific.

Not being able to lease DHCP addresses is a unit/machine specific
configuration issue.

It can also be a DHCP server configuration issue.
.

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