Ok I have been trying to access the internet through linux-mandrake for the
last 2 days with no luck. I am using mandrake 7.0 and it refuses to
sense/find my nic. My nic is a 3com 3c509 ISA card. I disabled pnp and linux
still couldnt find it. I have messed with everything I can think of in linux
and still nothing. After disabling pnp for the card it messed up the nic in
win98 so i had to enable pnp again. Does anyone have any idea why a
mainstream card from the number one producer of nics will not work in linux?
This is beyond frustrating because I really hate winbloze and im sick of
using that piece of crap and want to move on to something more stable and
open source. Here are my system specs incase they are needed.
p3 450@602
133 fsb
196 pc-133 ram
20 gig ibm hd
8.4 gig maxtor
56x cdrom
3com 3c509 nic
sound blaster live
voodoo3-3000
hp cdr/rw
dual boot with win982nd edition/linux-mandrake 7
Please help rescue me from a life in Winbloze
----- Original Message -----
From: Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: your mail
> On the other hand, Vi - improved, the glorious Vim , is
> worth learning because of its staggering flexibility - and anyone
> using Mandrake 6.1 or 7 gets a natty GTK interface with pretty icons
> and all the things that those poor souls suckled on Windows need to
> feel right at home. Try the Vim Homepage [www.vim.org ]for info and
> downloads.
>
> The only reason I'm sticking with Mandrake 6.1 is that I couldn't
> persuade 7.0 to compile the latest Vim............ :-)
>
> Glyn M.
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > At 10:08 AM 2/10/00 -0000, you wrote:
> > >use vi, type vi <filename> at a command prompt, useful commands are:
> > >
> > >:write - to save
> > >:quit - to quit
> > >:quit! - to force quit
> > >
> > >btw. you will probably hate it :)
> >
> > Shame on you, suggesting than a new user use vile and then giving an
> > inadequate warning. I
>
>
>
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