[Nottingham] Re: Meet up at my internet cafe

[Martin]

Ben,

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> found (simple enough, buy another) or is it because the OS cannot see
> the PCI bus. Is there anyway of varifying this?

Try for example:

# lspci
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00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine]
(rev 06)
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> I did a search for problems with it and a few people are having problems
> with the USB version but nobody seems to be having problems with the PCI
> version.

USB -> Ethernet or to modems always seems to be problematic or sometimes
just fragile. But then again, some setups can work fine...


> - A slightly curious choice to my selection criteria. Is this on machines
> - that have already come as a bundle?
> 
> Nooooo, I bought all the components seperately. They don't do bundles
> which include a 2.93ghz quad core, motherboard and 4gb ram. (Which works
> perfectly by the way)

That's quite high spec... For gaming freeeeks?


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> On a side note, now do I access a super user account in konqueror? In
> order to add a few desktop pictures and delete the ones I will never use.

# sudo konqueror


> Thanks for the help so far,

Keep hacking,

Cheers,
Martin


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