On Tuesday 15 May 2007 18:47, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:52:16 +0000, Tim Johnson wrote: > Or maybe there were many errors, too, and that is why it took three > hours... > > Before you yank out the ethernet card you can try to boot with the > option(s) "acpi=off" and/or "noapic" and/or "nolapic" appended to the > "kernel ..." line of GRUB. You can press "e" to edit a GRUB entry, then > you can use the cursor keys to select the "kernel" line, press "e" > again, add the option(s) at the end of the line (without the quotes, > separated by spaces if you want to combine them), press ENTER, and > finally "b" to boot. (If this makes the interface work reliably then you > might have some sort of interrupt conflict in your normal > configuration.) Didn't help. I'm going to pick up a new linksys card. Tomorrow or later today, I will try a fresh install off of a connection that I know to be good.
I want to thank everyone for all of the help. As difficult as this is been, the support confirms my tentative opinion that debian is the way to go. cheers tim -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palmer, Alaska, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
