lynn said the following on 12/15/2009 12:10 PM:
Hi James, Hi everyone. I use desktop computers at work so I know they work on a network. The three laptops I tried: eeeps, acer one and hp pavillion would not connect to Internet with opensuse even after several hours downloading with a wired connection and booting from the 11.2 kde live usb memory stick.
Did you try this at work?
Maybe there is something about the setup there, routers, firewall,
proxy, that your IT department have already loaded (or downloaded at
boot) onto your work computers that would need to be set manually on a
Linux platform. After all, out of the box, Linux doesn't respond to all
those centrally managed things that are used on Microsoft Networks to
make all this transparent to the corporate users.
Enquiring minds ...
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