On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:26, Rei Shinozuka wrote: I've CC'd this back to the list as i belive it concerns many besides yourself.
> thanks again for the help... �not in a hundred years would i have > figured this out. > > from old 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl > to new � 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > > the old was set up by http://www.linuxcomputersystems.com/ > when i got the machine. > > sp i assume they did all the hard work of getting this (and possibly > other drivers) on board. > > obviously, you need to get the drivers before you do the update. If the supllier of the system did there work properly (or i would expect it to be like the following) They supplied a working system which means they must have installed the nforce driver, (i doubt if they wrote there own) meaning the rpm or the tar archive should be on your system somewhere, that seems reasonable to me as folks often upgrade kernels. Of course if it is not on your system you will indeed need to obtan it before rebooting into the new kernel as you would then have a system without an ethernet device. I personally would splash out on a $15 ethernet card which i know is supported. I have never used fedora so i really should refrain from commenting. > > when i wanted to repartition my drive, he sort of discouraged me > from trying to just do a fresh install off the fedora disks. �this > was probably one of the reasons. � > > at least you can set your default kernel to boot from. > > and thank goodness for mondo. Its your computer, you can install what you want, nearly all linux distro's are free downloads from internet, its up to you. -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
