BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just
want to
tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been
doing...and doing
and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are
very poorly written.
they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that
HELP means you must
help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had
technical knowlegdge,
they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own
problem...man, what
a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do...
Art Richardson wrote:
>
> You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux
> that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be
> willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere
> in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that
> related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and
> someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for
> this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced
> with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this
> newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my
> questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to
> show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My
> girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would
> stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time
> before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one
> person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply .
>
> 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??
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
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