Cheers
J
Nick Rout wrote:
I suspect the difference *may* be that Andrew was installing off a pcmcia ethernet device, which have different startup scripts than pci ones
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:06:10 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wow, that's weird that it did not automagically configure your Internet Con (DHCP) for you. It did for me as I have the same setup here.
It is a sweet looking desktop and seems to be stable as heck so far (from my limited playtime with it). I would say that if you are happy with it, leave it as it sounds as though it is now configured how you want it and I guess you can apt-get/upgrade anything you may want at a later stage. I particularly liked Synaptic which I had never used before...
Cheers
Jason PS, new to Debian so take my ravings re it with a grain of salt.
Andrew Errington wrote:
Well, thanks Jason, for burning a copy for me so quickly. I booted the ThinkPad with the Live CD (disc 1), and it booted up into KDE quite nicely. There were two problems I immediately noticed:
1) Although the PCMCIA subsystem was detected, and the ethernet/modem combo card therein was found, I had to type 'pump' manually to get it to configure (I have a DHCP server in my router). I would expect this to happen automatically.
2) The (known) tricky sound on the 600E did not work, but the single line modprobe-with-arguments that is the simple solution also worked.
So, I have a dilemma- do I keep Debian woody on the laptop, with kernel 2.4.18, and an old KDE, which all mostly works even though I haven't tweaked it yet, or do I install MEPIS, which is a later kernel, later KDE and has a bunch of other apps neatly packages (oh, and it *looks* *nice*)?
I am sure to get a range of comments to help me decide- fire away! (Sorry Jason, you can't give me MEPIS and then tell me to install Mandrake...)
Thanks,
Andy
