Taking the Plunge-- Still

[Bill Cavalieri]

jmneedham at kc.rr.com wrote:

>Greetings all:
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>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.
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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.
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>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.  
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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.
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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.
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emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel should handle that.