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

[Jonathan Dye]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mats Hulten [mailto:mahu at ffs.gu.se]
> Sent: 24 May 2002 09:49
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Can't get my CNet PRO200WL netcard to work in
> Gentoo
> 
> 
> 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
Pine is easy to use/configure, mutt is powerful but requires fidlling with
.muttrc

> WWW - Got Lynx
Try links too (does frames and other stuff that lynx doesn't), and I think
w3m is another but I've not used it.

> Configuration tools?
vim ;-)

> 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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