little problems 1st install

From: chriske911 (chriske911-spamhater_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:25:41 +0100

I've recently been able to install and use Suse 9.2 on an HP Pavilion
4357 laptop
quite an achievement after trying for 6 years already to try out any
linux distro and failed installing it each time

anyways, everything is working now but a few little problems still
remain

1) wich driver can I use for a Texas Instruments microLaser PowerPro/12
(it's a network printer), I already tried the default PCL5e, PCL5 and
PCL4 but nothing works, the printer's NIC is from Genicom (default:
TCP-port 9100)

2) I reformatted a windows data partition from NTFS to Fat32 so I could
share files between both OS's but each time I restart I have to mount
the partition again (to /windows/E) , before when it was NTFS there was
no problem

3)I've used Knode and Pan and both are slow, buggy and don't have a
very intuitif GUI compared to MesNews I'm using now, are there better
choices?
I already found Novell Evolution but it's for Gnome and I'm using KDE,
or will it work on both desktops anyhow?

also I like RSS a lot, is there something out there that combines
Usenet, RSS and mail?

the reason why I ask this is that there is so much to find out there
and because I'm not yet the linux geek as I am with windows
I'd like to get a chance to try out Suse before I screw everything up
:')

thnx 

-- 
for OE users:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
just a suggestion ;-)

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