[Lincs] SuSe 9.1 Personal. My experiences so far.

[Dennis Wilson]

Please see the attached file for information, couldn't cut and paste so 
I copied it on to a disc and loaded it with windows.
Thanks
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Lingard" <chris at stockwith.co.uk>
To: <lincs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Lincs] SuSe 9.1 Personal. My experiences so far.


> On Thursday 01 July 2004 13:31, Dennis Wilson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm new to Linux having got sick of Win XP. Bought SuSe
> > because the ease of installation (according to the adverts).
> >
> > First problem I encountered was it couldn't partition my drive
> > because it was a Maxtor and had been set up using their
> > utilities. I had to reformat it using the low level? quick
> > format Maxtor utility and then it installed.
> >
> > I managed to get the printer/scanner (Epson CX3200) working
> > and my Digital camera and card reader.
> >
> > The one big problem I'm having is that I cannot get my
> > broadband working, I think it's because I can't get the
> > drivers to load. The pci card is listed but no driver. I have
> > read the instructions for installing the linux drivers and
> > many HOWTOs, but just get lost. I have no grounding in
> > programming or linux.
> > I'm not even sure what it is classed as, on the box, MegaSpeed
> > ADSL PCI Modem, is it (a) a modem (b) dsl (c) network or a
> > combination of all these?
> >
> > It works in Windows.
> 
> See if you have the program lspci from the pciutils package.
> 
> If you have do lspci -v -v -v
> 
> Cut and paste the relevent output.
> 
> Chris
> 
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