On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:37:11PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > ObeseWhale wrote: > > > 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the > > graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't > > seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from > > running xdm on startup? > > You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm).
or if you want to keep xdm, insert 'exit 0;' at the top of: /etc/init.d/xdm > > > 2. My ethernet card, a Netgear fa310tx, came with a driver disk. The disk > > has a linux directory with but one file 'tulip.c', which is clearly the > > driver... How do I install this to get my ethernet card working? > > I don't really know... I'd probably try 'gcc -c tulip.c', followed by > 'insmod tulip.o'. Isn't there a readme or anything on the disk? there should be compile instructions if you type: tail tulip.c otherwise, you may be able to use the tulip module in the kernel
