Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Cygwin doesn't recognize my internet connection. Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:02:44 +0100 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <1377rxiqbr7i9$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <1079986050.405f4782af5be@webmail.scservers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-140.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de * davidpesta@www.davidpesta.com (2004-03-22 21:07 +0100) > I am somewhat unfamiliar with linux and needed certain linux capabilities, so > I installed cygwin and got many things working well. The only problem that I > cannot seem to find a solution to is getting cygwin to recognize the internet > connection that windows xp is connected to. When I try to use curl, it reacts > as if the connection is dead. I suppose something needs to be done to make > cygwin realize what the connection this computer has to the internet. Same as with all Windows applications in Windows and Linux applications in Linux: nothing has to be done make them "Internet aware". They just use the connection that your computer has and your route to the Internet. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/