On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David A. Cobb wrote: > > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > > archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but > > in the meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can't access my NIC, so > > all that stuff requires rebooting into Windows. > > You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't > need to reboot into Windows. <snip> Actually, he mentions nVidia hardware above. By this I assume he means an nVidia chipset on his motherboard. In which case, his network card (built into the motherboard) is not recognized unless you have a kernel newer than 2.4.20 (not sure the exact version where they added it) using the forcedeth module or by applying nVidia's patches to a 2.4.20 kernel and using nvnet. Unfortunately, either way would require him to go into Windows to download stuff, for his nVidia hardware to work in Woody. David, if your Windows partition really is vfat format, and not running something like XP which uses NTFS, you probably just need to modprobe vfat before trying to mount it. Look at Monique's e-mail for a good fstab example, if you need it. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #31: National Weather Service advice for those threatened by severe thunderstorms: "Go inside a sturdy building and stay away from WINDOWS!" http://www.linux.org
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