Re: First Time Install Problems

From: Tony Anderson (tonys.linux_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 03/25/04

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    Paul Johnson wrote:
    > Tony Anderson <tonys.linux@ntlworld.com> writes:
    >
    >
    >>I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian
    >>particularly.
    >
    >
    > Welcome to the brave GNU world, my friend!
    >
    >
    >>I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple
    >>of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4.5 which I beleive Is
    >>based on Debian but appears to be quite restrictive.
    >
    >
    > Yes, one of the things that makes me steer people away from Lindows
    > is, by default, you're always root. Lindows makes roughly the same
    > mistake that makes a lot of the bugs in Windows possible with that one
    > step.
    >
    >
    >>Unfortunately it appears as if my NetGear FA311/312 NIC card is not
    >>supported by the Linux kernel, it is using the 'National
    >>Semiconductor Corporation DP83815' driver in Lindows, could someone
    >>please point me to the correct drivers and a howto on installing
    >>them ?
    >
    >
    > There are no sub-gigabit Ethernet adapters that aren't supported by
    > Linux. Thank you for the detail, however, this makes it easier for us
    > to help you.
    >
    > That being said, a quick search[1] through Google turned up a web
    > page[2] that seems to indicate that you want the natsemi kernel module.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > [1] http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=DP83815+linux&btnG=Google+Search
    >
    > [2] http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
    >

    Thankyou for the help. I've managed to do a bf24 install this evening
    from the Woody cd's and 'natsemi' solved my nic problems.

    I'm still having trouble getting my SIS 7018 onboard sound to work, i've
    tried googling which suggested adduser 'myaccount' audio then running
    modconf and selecting the i810 option. On selecting the i810 all i get
    is installation failed. Any suggestions ?

    I'm also having problems seeing my CDRW drive which was working through
    a scsi interface in Lindows. I selected SCSI as a module during the
    install to no avail. Any suggestions ?

    Thanks in Advance,
    Tony 

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