On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a > psychiatric facility.
Whatever works for you, I guess. > I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the > web. My windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. > I figured that shouldn't be a problem, I had Debian 3.0 on the other > half of the drive. I don't understand. Windows went down, and your answer is to reinstall Linux? Was the connection still working under Linux? Was everything else working under Linux? Why fix something that wasn't broken? > After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't > installed it for over five years, I finally got it installed the way > I wanted it. Then I hit the wall. Sounds like you use Windoze much more than Linux. > I still can't use it to connect to the web. I got to the point where > it told me something about a sequence that was not 6-bit pure and the > 7-bit was always zero. X would not work. I was told that there were > no screens available. The usb connectiion did not work and neither > did the printer, an HP Officejet 4110. I have Woody on my gateway/firewall. I wouldn't attempt to use it today on my main box--much easier to go through the newer dists with a more complete installer. > I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any > better. If it doesn't, I'll have to relegate Debian to the status of > toy, somthing to play with. This will win you many friends. Try something similar on a Windoze group (or wherever). Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
