Attempting to set up Debian 3.0 on a dell 3800 laptop

[Ronald Highet]

I have just installed Debian 3.0 on my Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, and like any good Debian install I seem to be having a few problems   First of all the base system seems to run fine Gnome and KDE both look great. However if I swap from X to a full screen console (ctrl alt f1). I am unable to read anything and the screen goes mad, (a sort of hazy mess of randomly colored and moving lines all over the screen).   Secondly the laptop has a PCMCIA network card a ‘Belkin cardbus 10/100’ network card to be exact. It is a reasonably pricey card and on the Belkin site under the card info it says that is supported by linux. When I run cardmgr I can see that the card is in the slot and correctly identified as a cardbus network card however when I edited the file that stores info on network devices it keeps telling me that the device is unreachable.   I am relatively new to linux so if I have made a silly mistake I will not be surprised.   Any help on either of the problems would be greatly appreciated. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED]