Re: gdm fails

[Aswin Venkat <venkat@bevo.che.wisc.edu>]

Hi all-

 > > 
 > Well, this is not that easy. We need to know a lot about your "network".
 > 
 > First: Direct connection to the Internet from your machine (i.e. Modem -
 > what ever type - in/connected to your machine) or connection via a LAN
 > and a router?

Actually this is part of the problem. At home i have a connection via
a modem to the internet(through a gateway). At school however, the
connection goes via a LAN and router.

I was able to get the network running from home. I installed the package
laptop-net that uses debconf to guide the installation and it
worked. However, i am not sure how to handle two sets of networks--is
there a way the laptop can detect which network its on and get on it
or do i need two sets of /etc/interfaces/network files?


Essentially i want to have a /etc/interfaces/network file that does
something like

if @home then eth0 uses first network
else
if@school then eth0 uses the school network
else
eth0 uses available network(or atleast tries to)

I installed the whereami package which i thought should do that but i
was'nt able to get that to work. I read about another package ifplugd
that supposedly does that(available in the unstable distribution--i
have the stable version installed currently)
, i have'nt tried that out yet but i was
wondering if there is another way to do it

 > 
 > Second: What bandwidth do you have? Just to make sure you have a
 > connection allowing you to download all the nice things we propose to
 > you - before Xmas next year ;-)

The bandwidth is quite good(especially at school)
so i don't see a problem downloading stuff--chances are it
should be done well before
Xmas this year, not next;-) 

Also, lets say i add the following lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list,
can then just use

> >  > 
 > >  > #### XFree 4.3 backport
 > >  > #### this should work as of today (2003-10-22), delivers 4.3.0
 > >  > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./
 > >  > #### I got my XFree 4.3 from the  ximian-desktop 2 project, but at 
 > >  > ##### this time the server kicks me on connect.
 > >  > #### TRY OUT by uncommenting below two lines
 > >  > #deb ftp://linux.upsa.es/pub/RC2/ ./
 > >  > #deb ftp://linux.upsa.es/pub/OO.O/ ./
 > >  > 
 > >  > #### Gnome 2.2 backport to woody, including evolution 1.4.5
 > >  > deb
 > >  > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/
 > >  > deb-src
 > >  > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/
 > >  > 
 > >  > ##### MPlayer 
 > >  >  deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main
 > >  > 
 > >  > ##### Mozilla 1.4
 > >  >  deb http://debian.relativ.org/ ./
 > >  > 
 > >  > #### official sources
 > >  > # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
 > >  > # deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
 > >  > contrib non-free
 > >  > 
 > >  > # EOF
 > >  > --- snap ---


apt-get update

to install Xfree86 4.3/gnome2.2 etc or do i have to use

apt-get install XFree86

 
Thanks,
Aswin