On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:12 pm, S Clement wrote: >----> I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a > psychiatric facility. ----> >----> I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the > web. My windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. I > figured that shouldn't be a problem, I had Debian 3.0 on the other half of > the drive. ----> >----> After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't > installed it for over five years, I finally got it installed the way I > wanted it. Then I hit the wall. ----> >----> I still can't use it to connect to the web. I got to the point where > it told me something about a sequence that was not 6-bit pure and the 7-bit > was always zero. X would not work. I was told that there were no screens > available. The usb connectiion did not work and neither did the printer, > an HP Officejet 4110. ----> >----> I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any > better. If it doesn't, I'll have to relegate Debian to the status of toy, > somthing to play with. For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I > stick the disks in and it installs and works. There are modifications I > make, but it works. ----> >----> When will Debian?
Debian works just a bit differently than XP. Please note:- differently. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? .......................................Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Debian Sarge 3.1.......... loving it ___________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
