> OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
You all will be sick of me soon.. Just a little note of apology to the list and for being a crybaby. (Its not my fault ... its genetic .. :-) ) Also a little underhanded way to see if I got the mail sort of close to right. There is one little glitch .. already posted. but I think the fact that I know nothing about exim and was able to get mail working just with `base-config' speaks volumes. > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth of cds setting here. Surely I can at least use them > to get the base install going and maybe get my nic setup. Then do the > rest via network? Now this item is kind of funny really. I accidently started this going after making a forth try at installing, and after the base install I opted to add ftp to the media possibilities. Scads of files are being brought down the pipe as I write. > In the last three attempts my nic is not recognized and any attempt to > install one of the 3com drivers is rejected. I didn't capture any > error info but will this time if it comes up. My card is: > 3Com 3C905B-TX (PCI) A kind poster named Sebastiaan, sent me a note that said to use the 3c59x driver. The install bought it and I am network enabled now. This is something that needs to be patched though. 1) The install screen where you pick out drivers and other modules is unecessarily cumbersom. Is there really a reason why one must scroll back thru the whole thing with each choice. I see no chance to mark or otherwise do things better than one by one with a complete rescroll at each stop. 2) The driver listed for the 3Com 3c905b is not the right one and in my case the OS rejects it. The right one is a couple lines further along. One would never know it unless told in advance as I was.
