> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Richardson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Mon 13 March 2000 15:50
> To: Newbie
> Subject: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
>
>
> 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have
> been
> told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work
> properly.
> The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family
> computer
> and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will
> disabling
> the PnP feature do to the windows side??
>
I have the same nic in my dual booting system.
No probs.
The worst that may happen to you is that you may have to manually
enter the
IRQ and I/O in Winblows and or Linux.
The way I set mine up was I looked in Winblows to see what recources
it was useing
and then disabled plug and play on the nic and entered those values
into the nic.
There is a dos program to do this that you get from the 3com site on
the WWW.
Mandrake had no problems to detect the settings (version 6.1) It
detected the card and
I let it probe for settings.
> 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found
> that
> you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think
> I
> did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I
> click
> on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my
> nic
> to work. I can't configure anything.
>
Can't help you with that I'm afraid, I don't have Mandy 7
> 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off
> my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the
> question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake.
> I
> am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the
> machine down.
>
I believe this is the easiest way:
On the lilo boot prompt type
linux init 3
> Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from
> using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I
> just
> have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening
> Art
>
Cheers:
Michael Perry.
R&D. Dep. Netafim Magal.
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