On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:44, you wrote: > I am doing some networking for some colleagues on the same floor as me. > One guy did not have a network card in his win98 machine so I bought > a cheapie rtl8139 based edimax ($23). > > However win98 does not have drivers listed and the damn floppy drive was > foobared.
[ ... ] > simple really and i'm sure you would all have thought of it while i was > still scratching my head, but i was impressed by the way knoppix handled > it. > > I gotta start carrying that knoppix cd in my briefcase! Or a lnx-bbc in your wallet. It comes as your card-to-carry as a FSF member! http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Don't forget Tom's root and boot for smaller machines and those occasions when the CD is not functioning. ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/tomsrtbt/ cpio and nc are the commands to remember for moving chunks of data. -- C. S.
