Heja Norge! Thanks for your reply. Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > [snip] > If you really want to use GNOME, just skip gnome when you install debian, then > add 'deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main' > to your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update and > apt-get install task-gnome-desktop. I guess that's closer to what you want. > But, hey I'm not sure how well this works with potato, maybe you have to use > woody. Mmmm..sounds interesting, but it takes time to download via 56k cable..:-( On the other hand one might assume that GNOME on the official CDROM should work out of the box! > [snip] > > wvdial didn't find the modem (I'm used to wvdial 'always' finding the > > modem on first attempt!) which is a Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO on > > ttyS0. > > Hmm, do you try this as root or as a normal user? Maybe you have to add your > self into the group which own the device. > As root. But i guess that ppp is not configured in the kernel even though the module was installed from the beginning, could it be so? > > Window Maker seems to be the default window manager, what happened to > > fvwm? I can't find it on the CDROM. > > It should be there if this is an official Debian potato cd. At least the file > ~debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/fvwm_2.2.4-2.deb exist in my > potato-mirror. > OK, I'll check that once again. Which window manager is the most 'Debian friendly' if I may say so? Does KDE run smoothly on Debian? [snip]
Thank's again & all the best! Helgi Örn
