Text 42629, 71 rader
Skriven 2008-02-04 13:28:04 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
  Kommentar till text 42576 av Jeff Guerdat (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: W98 CD update.
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On or about: 02-03-08  12:41, Jeff Guerdat did engage James Bradley regarding,
but not limited to: W98 CD update.

 JG> James Bradley -> Alan Zisman wrote:
 
 JB> Not so fast, Alan. I need IE 6 *before* I connect to the WiFI server.
 JB> The Sight Survey needs some scripting that is not provided by IE4. I may
 JB> try to router into a friends account, but I would like to avoid that if
 JB> possible. I'm real close to logging on in the Linux side of the dual
 JB> boot, but even that will not move me any further than procuring the
 JB> installer, and writing that to a Windows partition. (Already done with a
 JB> USB sneaker-net anyway.)
 
 JB> My latest brainstorm, thought I might use Firefox, but you mentioned <?>
 JB> it doesn't run ActiveX, precluding it from running the MS update site.
 JB> Hmmm... Firefox to log in, then open IE4 for the updates... Screwier
 JB> plans have worked. <G> Now, I hope I have a version of Firefox in the
 JB> library. If I have to use an old Netscape to fill this bill, I'm going
 JB> to crack! <L>

 JG> I'm not following.  I haven't seen any WiFi connection that requires
 JG> ActiveX  nor any router that requires it to configure the router.  
 JG> What is it that requires the login?  What requires the
 JG> ActiveX?  Are you sure anything other than the MS updates 
 JG> site requires ActiveX?

I thought I read Alan explain, that ActiveX was required to run the Windows
updates from the MS site. I guess the answer to your question would be, "No, I
know of nothing else that requires ActiveX." I don't even know *what* ActiveX
*is.*

As near as I can ascertain, the server I am trying to tap into redirects my
first attempt to access any page, to *their* login page. (IE: My request to
bring up http://www.google.ca or any numbered address, instead goes to
http://www.calgarypubliclibrary.com/login.html, or thereabouts.) I did find a
Windows version of Firefox to *Run the script required to do a Site Survey*,
and carted off to the library yesterday, but I'm still of the opinion I need to
know their DNS spoof. Something is preventing me from looking like an XP
default setting, and I think because I have to go with a static address for my
access point, might not be helping my cause either.


 JG> Since I use Linux almost exclusively on this laptop, I have 
 JG> to use FF (or similar) to do anything.  I must be missing 
 JG> something because I have no trouble at all getting a WiFi 
 JG> connection or browsing the 'Net.

You're missing the joy of making a small tweak, and carting off to the library
with it. <G+D>

I tested the box on the bench with Firefox on W98 and Linux before I left, and
both were able to contact my D-Link DWL-G810. (A wireless "Access Point",
802.11g box built for the "gamebox" type.) I also took the opportunity to
'install-packages *' on as many directories as I could while I tested the Linux
side. (Slackware 12. The, original install ran into all sorts of buffer
overflows, so as I turned on "DMA for HDs only" in the kernel, and I barged
forward.) As you might imagine, I must have rewrote a eth0 configuration, or an
executable that brings ethernet up. <Thump head> At least I learned that W98
can bring me to the same point that Linux was accomplishing the week before.
/-: (Being... Site survey accomplished, but nothing after the "negotiation." If
that's what it is called? Traffic does seem go in both directions, but nothing
seems to leave my box past the negotiation.)



... James

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