First, thanks for the advice about how to get a shell instead of a KDE session. Worked like a charm.
Second, the box I'm planning to use as a server is a HP pavilion 503n, which has a RTL8139 Nic included in the motherboard. I've been trying to get the machine up on the network, but each time I boot up, the eth0 check comes up failed. After some searching, I found that I'm not the only one who has had problems with this particular nic chipset. The search finally lead me to this page: http://www.scyld.com/rtl8139.html, however, I'm not sure about using those drivers, as they specify that they are good up through the 2.4 kernel. Does anyone know how to get this nic to work?
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