Okay, I made that up. I downloaded the Mepis 6.0 ISO last night and burned it. It boots on the ThinkPad 600E I was struggling with yesterday. The 8139cp and 8139too modules are both loaded, but IPV6 is not present (this is odd, but I haven't tinkered yet, I just booted up and selected the default boot image and let it carry on) and my network is up and working "out of the box".
I will play around with it for a bit, but I was very impressed with the version of Mepis that was released last March, so I hope the newest one is as pleasant. I have to say that Ubunutu 5.05 (on the hard drive) and Kubuntu 6.06 (live CD) have put me off due to having to fiddle with the network card. I did play a bit with Ubuntu that was on the hard drive last night and got wxPython going and a GUI script I had written on Windows ran quite nicely on Ubuntu, but today I think i will wipe it all and install Mepis. This is the first version of Mepis to be based on the Dapper LTS pool (more info at www.mepis.org). Previous versions were a mix of Debian stable, unstable and testing. I suppose that Ubuntu is really Debian underneath, but more up to date. Andrew
