On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:59:30 -0500
Eddie Arteaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I spent the last week or so installing various Linux distributions.
> It
> really gets frustrating trying to make it all work.
why set yourself up for failure? try one at a time, it's *way* less
confusing that way. just a thought =)
> I installed Slackware 8, Progeny 1.0, Caldera 3.1 and Suse 7.1. All
> installed
> purposely on a machine with a SB16 card and Kingston NIC hooked to a
> cable
> connection. I figured they should all detect this popular hardware.
can't help you too much with the others, but i might be able to help
with slackware 8...
> All of them blew the sound. They see the card, and tweak the configs
> as I
> might, it still wouldn't work. I switched my system bios to PnP and
> non-PnP
> OS.
i have a sb16 myself, all i had to do was edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules by
removing a single '#', sb16 is at the very top of the list ;). open it
up in your favorite editor and take a look at it, it's very well
commented throughout - though you shouldn't need to uncomment anything
else as the stock kernels come with everything but the kitchen sink.
> Using any of the 2.4.x kernels supplied, I lost DHCP. The system
> reports
> seeing my NIC fine, and it attempts to pull DHCP on boot, and fails.
> Errors
> range from a timeout to Caldera's " garbage in relay string", whatever
> the
> hell that means. Using the 2.2.x kernels it worked swell.
could you be a little more distro specific here? which disto gives you
which error? slackware should set this all up, either during install (it
asks you if you want to) or afterwards by running 'netconfig' as root.
ummm, you did read the installation docs didn't you?
> Other than that, I am able to log in and run the system. I do
> experience
> hangs out of nowhere. KDE just all of a sudden hangs on the newer
> releases.
> Gnome, well it does what Gnome does best, segfault all the time.
again, which distro? all of them? if so, i'd be considering either a
PEBKAC error or faulty towers... i mean hardware =)
> By far the best distro I have used is Caldera 2.4. It detected sound,
> NIC,
> and printer all during the install. Netscape does inline video right
> out of
> the box on COL 2.4. On the newer releases you have to set it all up,
> what a
> pain.
> All I know is this...I do not experience problems such as this in
> Windows
> 2000. I have yet to get a blue screen in Windows 2000. I know I'm
> gonna get
> flamed for this, cool. I use a machine to work on, real work, not
> sending
> e-mail or surfing pr0n.
so, are you trolling for flames, or what? if you like w2k that much go
use it but *something* must have made you want to try a real OS or you
would be here. right? if you want to talk LINUX then you'll probably get
help and be able to actually enjoy your experience but if all you're
going to do is crow about how you're so happy with your favorite ms
flavor, why bother?
> I will keep trying to learn Linux and work with it. Maybe someday I'll
> take
> it serious.
ask questions here and give *detailed* information on what you did and
what went bang, somebody will help... but that's not likely if you just
want to start flame wars
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