Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> 2) The driver listed for the 3Com 3c905b is not the right one and Harry>in my case the OS rejects it. The right one is a couple lines Harry>further along. One would never know it unless told in advance as I Harry>

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:34:27PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step | back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') | | A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have | $40 dollars worth o

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:28:04AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Actually, from his report: > > 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 c

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:34:27PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts GREAT > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth of cds setting here. Isn't that quite expensive? I saw an ad for the potat

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:50:20AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Feb 28, 2002, Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >I see no chance to mark or otherwise do things better than one by > >one with a complete rescroll at each stop. > > Either skip the step or suffer a little.

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 28, 2002, Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 .. alre

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:38:09PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > [...] > I managed to get fired up here by allowing only the basic install from > the cds and going to ftp from there, with a working network, all > things become possible.. Downloading and installing now from > `stable'. > > Not sure

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:25:49PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > > 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) >

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 19:34, Harry Putnam wrote: > OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') > > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth of cds setting

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My guess is an irq setting isn't being found correctly. What resources was > the card successfully using before? > Thanks Bob, I've posted the problem with it already but in brief I hadn't tried to install the correct driver. I used the base-config to

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread p
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:34:27PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') > > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth o

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') > > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth of cds setting here.

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Bruce Burhans
Go for it! And don't feel bad. I've been staring at the CDs for a month, and have yet to muster the courage to even try. I'll be following your adventure and plan to learn a great deal from it, so thanks for hanging in there.. This is how we learn, is it not? Bruce<+> -

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread ben
On Thursday 28 February 2002 05:34 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') > > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth of cd

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> 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) I just checked, that looks like the same card I have: 00:0d.0: 3Com

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
> 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 lit