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Justin Hartman wrote: > On 2/18/07, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> > * Getting Etch operational from a netinstall cd >> >> What image did you used? Could you define a little bit more what >> didn't worked? > > I used the etch rc1 i386 net install image. Think it was about 135MB > big. My problem was that it wouldn't pick up any eth interfaces and > because I new I had them I had to manually insert the eth1 interface > and only once Gnome was installed could I get the wireless setup on > eth0. > >> > * Getting my Belkin PCI card operational (still not 100% correct and >> > only connecting at 11mbps instead of the 54 it's capable of) >> >> ndis or native driver? > > Well this is a little confusing to me. Intially I was using the bcm43 > driver which shipped with Sid and this worked. My problem as mentioned > was the 11mbps connection vs 54. Then I tried ndiswrapper to install > the windows driver which was on the install CD. It seems to be > installed but it still doesn't actually increase my connection speed > and remains at 11mbps. > >> > * Preventing Gnome from crashing almost immediately on startup (only >> > an upgrade to unstable fixed this) >> >> That sounds like an RC bug. Could you say what messages (if any) you >> got? Did failsafe GNOME sessions worked? > > Gnome failsafe did work. I can't remember any messages now but what I > did experience was a hang almost immediately once Gnome started up. I > had a similar issue once on my iBook and found beagled to be the > problem so I removed this from my system. Seemed to work but still had > a lot of problems starting up. I then upgraded to Sid from Etch and > never had another problem. > >> > * Various network related issues (lots of trial and error) >> >> please explain/be more specific > > Well I had a lot of problems trying to connect to windows servers as > well as my office wifi network. When I spoke of lots of trial and > error what I meant was that I had to try various different connection > options in connecting to the wifi network. > >> > * Not able to print to a SMB network printer (tried everything yet >> > still can't get there) >> >> not sure what you tried, so I don't have a starting point for ideas > > The printer settings option in Gnome refused to pickup my network > printer for whatever reason. I did a little searching and found this > information [1] which I used to setup the printer. I now have the > printer setup and the printer can see me when I spool jobs to it but > for some weird reason print jobs never come out. The printer spool > hangs and I have to manually cancel the print job at the printer > itself. > > [1] > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html#printing_to_windows > - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3CyRY8Chqv3NRNoRAltRAJ0brg9PqbwRDLe8EjUSPFFIIdHZ7wCgyKpw drxd/3xFeYDbNmi8EWq+Jnk= =GmDo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
