Re: Taking the Plunge-- Still

jmneedham-mqiTH3uDUMEAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
checkout www.linuxant.com, a lot of windows drivers will work with their 
DriverLoader.  This weekend I'll be testing it out with my D-Link 
dwl-650+ (22mbs 11b), this does have a real linux driver, but it is 
alpha and pretty buggy.  So if Linuxant's solution will work, I will 
gladly pay the fee (if it is needed, they are trying to get  hardware 
vendors to sponsor).

> 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.  
Sounds like not all the required modules were built with kernel.  Check 
your kernel config, and rebuild if needed.

> 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.
>  

X -configure
will get you most of the way

> 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.
>
>  
emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel should handle that.




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