Haiku user Fernando de Sousa, sent ICO an e-mail letting us know about his experiences with Haiku and its network usage. As you can see from the screenshots below (just follow the links), he's been browsing using ol' Opera for BeOS. Here's what he said about it:

"Using ifconfig and route commands and a /etc/resolv.conf file it's already possible to have some internet experience in Haiku as the system already has basic network support.

I think that the possibility of network in Haiku opens a lot of possibilities to the system especially because is so easy for running, testing, developing, hacking, tunning etc it in virtual machines. If you think that is good idea I would write a "how to" teaching how to have network running in Haiku."

So what do you think? A how-to would be useful for newcomers, no? Well done Fernando.

Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

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Hey! One more screenshot is needed! Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-06-16 11:35:11 It'd be complete if there were a screenshot of browsing using Opera 3.62 with the page displayed being the posting of the story of "Browsing on Haiku with Opera." just to be complete, though showing HTTPS sites in use would be nice, too, since FireFox/SeaMonkey often messes that up on certain machines.

Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-06-16 13:04:00 But there are. link one

it works Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-06-16 18:48:03 I am writing this comment from haiku!   screenshot

I dont get internet running on Haiku Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-06-18 00:25:14 It looks great and i see that internet is running on haiku. I have test to get firefox running on haiku but without any result .    I dont have test Opera to do this, this is my next test     Lelldorin

DHCP works... Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-06-18 09:31:46 If you have a properly-working DHCP server, you shouldn't actually need to use ifconfig and route now...

need to ust ifconfig, route and resolve. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-06-18 14:31:51 My router does DHCP with every OS except BeOS Zeta, or Haiku ... go figure. I set my ip address and netmask with ifconfig, my gateway with route, and my dns servers are in resolv.conf in /boot/beos/etc. and I go on-line ... http://216.110.210.251/fatelk/images.haikuserf.png    I need to use ifconfig to set the interface down then up again about every third page load or it stops working and Opera is not executable after a re-boot. Ah the pleasures of pre-alpha software.

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