Taking the Plunge-- Still

Greetings all:

Well I have a Gentoo system up and running and as I write this, I left it 
compiling KDE after the initial installation.  I have abandoned the wireless 
NIC for now, though I have to state that I did replace it with an SMC Wireless 
NIC in hopes that the wlan project drivers will support it once I get there.

Right now, I am having issues as the LiveCD found the network and configured it 
automatically... when I rebooted, I did a dhcpcd eth0 and have what seems to be 
slow Internet connectivity.

My mainboard is an Intel with a 985 chipset (Compaq Presario 6420NX) and it has 
what I believe is the integrated Realtec drivers, but I have yet to actually 
setup the parameters as I am not sure why the drivers are not in /lib/.../net/ 
as the install indicated.  I also can not mount any CD or DVD and I am not sure 
what fun awaits me as I get Xfree installed... but it has been like 3 years 
since I configured X windows.

My video card is now an Nvidia 5200 with 128 MB of Ram and I am hoping to find 
an X server that will be sufficient to run that.

Now I REALLY need some help!

Thanks,



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J. Mike Needham
jmneedham-mqiTH3uDUMEAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kansas USA



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