[Gllug] Can't get my CNet PRO200WL netcard to work in Gentoo

[Mats Hulten]

Thanks Bruce, I think I just may do that though maybe not for a month...
:)
Can you point me at som good programs that run at CLI?
Mail client, preferely one capable of using POP
WWW - Got Lynx
Configuration tools?
Other good software?

-Mats

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:10 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Can't get my CNet PRO200WL netcard to 
> work in Gentoo
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:42:37PM +0100, Ian wrote:
> > I suspect that most beginners without any sort of *nix background 
> > would take one look and run away to something like Mandrake. But if 
> > you have it working, and you're getting on with it, stick 
> with it as 
> > ultimately it will be the more rewarding experience.
> 
> And I would make one big recommendation: don't bother with X 
> yet.  Stick at the console and see how much you can get done 
> there.  Learn to control the system at the cli, edit config 
> files, navigate the filesystem, find documentation etc.  Get 
> your internet connection figured, set up console mail and 
> news clients, learn to use a text browser.
> 
> That might take you a month or so, depending on how much time 
> you have to give to it.  But it would be worth it.  By the 
> time you came to configure X you'd have no problem 
> troubleshooting that or any other procedure.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce
> 
> If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would 
> be too simple to understand it.
> 



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