after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Hi, I'm trying to understand Linux and since I was working with DOS and Pascal since 1982, I thought that I had an advantage Here is what I did: upgraded with max memory my X22 ThinkPad and installed and uninstalled all kinds of (k)unbutu, Mint, DSl etc. My pcmcia linksys card with a broadcom

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Age Jan (John) Stap wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand Linux and since I was working with DOS and Pascal since 1982, I thought that I had an advantage Here is what I did: upgraded with max memory my X22 ThinkPad and installed and uninstalled all kinds of (k)unbutu, Mint, DSl etc.

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Age Jan (John) Stap wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand Linux and since I was working with DOS and Pascal since 1982, I thought that I had an advantage Here is what I did: upgraded with max memory my X22 ThinkPad and installed and uninstalled all kinds of (k)unbutu, Mint, DSl etc. My

Re: [stable] [PATCH stable] b43legacy: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code

On Sunday 22 June 2008 18:59:59 Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:46:12AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the DMA allocation error checking code. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Age Jan (John) Stap wrote: Hi Larry, Thanks for your input. Suggesting I go with Suze 11, is not the way I want. I have worked with all of them over the last three years (must have thrown away 100 plus live and install cd's). I want Debian and may have to die before I find my solution

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Please don't misunderstand the following comments. I am not disparaging the great work done by the bcm43xx team, but the fact is that a reverse engineered driver will never be as good as a driver for which the original source code or specs are released by the manufacturer. I mostly lurk on this

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Mike Mohr wrote: Please don't misunderstand the following comments. English _is_ my second language but I will do my best to not misunderstand the following comments. I hope you do the same. I am not disparaging the great work done by the bcm43xx team, but the fact is that a reverse

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

On Sunday 22 June 2008 22:42:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Mohr wrote: Please don't misunderstand the following comments. English _is_ my second language but I will do my best to not misunderstand the following comments. I hope you do the same. ... If I wanted a commercial or spam

Re: after 3 weeks of problems, should I go back to windows?

Let me respond below.. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Mohr wrote: Please don't misunderstand the following comments. English _is_ my second language but I will do my best to not misunderstand the following comments. I hope you do the same. aye, will do.