[plug] Redhat 6.1

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of David Buddrige
> Sent: Sunday, 27 March 2005 6:37 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Redhat 6.1
> 
> Couldn't find my Debian CD, and with the problems I was 
> having with RH9.0, I decided to fish out an old Redhat 6.1 CD 
> that I had lying around gathering dust. 
> 
> The task at hand, is to get an internet proxy so that my 
> wife, border and I can all share our 56k modem line to surf 
> the web.  I know this is going to be slow as anything but its 
> better than nothing for the time being [funds being a bit on 
> the low side]. 
> 
> I actually managed to get 6.1 to install onto my P2 333Mhz 
> machine [no surprise there] but now am having hassles getting 
> it to work with my monitor on X.  I have a LiteOn monitor; 
> the Redhat 9 CD had detected it as being a CM1454NEL model.  
> Unfortunately, Redhat 6.1 doesn't seem to have proper drivers 
> for this particular monitor, so I can't seem to get it to 
> work with the monitor. 
> 
> There are two ways around this.  Me being the lazy sort, who 
> never got around to figuring out how to do ppp in text mode, 
> I've always just used the graphical ppp tools provided by 
> Redhat and ilk such as kppp; hence the need for X to be 
> working properly. 
>
> So, either I get X working on this machine [with my CM1454NEL 
> monitor], or I have to learn how to set up ppp with text-mode 
> tools under redhat 6.1.  
> Alternately, I wait until I can find someone with another 
> distro and a CD-burner.  I actually visited about 5 different 
> Newsagents today, trying to find one that was open, so I 
> could get Fedora or somesuch.  However, when I eventually 
> found a newsagency that was open and had the computer mag's I 
> was after, it turns out they're all on DVD now - and I don't 
> have a DVD drive in my computer - only a 32X CDROM. 8-( 
> 
> Does anyone know where I can get drivers for a CM1454NEL 
> monito for Redhat
> 6.1  ?  I've been searching google, but no luck so far... 
> 
> cheers 
> 
> David. 

I think I speak for the group when I say: "Eewwwwww"
RH6.2 is wayyyy behind the times security-wise and there are no current
updating systems in place.

Where are you located? I'm sure people will be willing to burn / download an
IPCOP CD...
It's only 40MB, and it'll do what you have specified so far.
Oh, and you can dial / disconnect from the admin webpage, so a monitor isn't
*that* necessary.
http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/ipcop/ipcop-1.4.4.iso


Regards,

CraigF.