I have used Linux for quite some time, but have very little experience
with installing it. Having recently started a new job, I have been
given a Windows box and told that it's okay if I want to put Linux on
it. And I do.
So I downloaded jigdo, used that to download and build the Debian Disc1
disc image, and built a startup CD. Only for some reason, booting from
CD prevented the Debian Installer from recognizing my hard drives.
Creating a rescue and root floppy with rawrite2.exe solved this
problem, and I went about my installation.
Everything has gone just fine except for a few things, so I have some
questions.
(1) First and foremost, I'd like to be able to use the internet from
this machine, but the Debian Installer failed to recognize the
installed ethernet card. It's a 3C918 card. From some googling
around, it appears that this is just a standard 3Com 3C905B card that
is packaged into some Dell computers (the machine is a Dell). But I'm
not sure how to go about installing the driver for this card, or
getting the system to recognize it -- does it require me to recompile
the kernel? I inspected /etc/network/interfaces but it doesn't have
much to offer.
(2) Second and nextmost, I'd like to run X11 on the machine.
Unfortunately, I can't get it to work, though I've tried a few
different video settings. I found some of these settings by booting
into Windows and checking the Device Manager in the Control Panel and I
have used the xf86config program to try different parameters, but X11
still fails to run correctly. Most unfortunate is that since I can't
get the system online, I can't email the errors that are shown to me
when I do try to run "startx &". (Actually I'm not certain I'd be able
to redirect them to a file as they are not STDOUT from a utility, but
rather displayed from within some kind of full-screen, colored program
with a scroll bar that is controlled with arrow keys... anyone have any
idea what I'm talking about?)
Any advice at all is much appreciated.
Erik
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