Re: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured......

2000-09-07 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
Anyone who is tempted to call this post off-topic is invited to observe that I am talking about recovering from a problem which sometimes arises during the Linux installation process. In W95 three or four years ago I stumbled upon what seems to me a particularly simple way to fix Windows

Re: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured......

2000-09-07 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured.. This might work, but what will happen if all the registry files are gone? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John A. MacLaughlin Sent: Thursday, September 07, 20

Re: [newbie] nic card

2000-09-07 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
http://www.netgear.com/support/fa311v130.exe (464KB) is a self-extracting archive containing a Linux handler in source. - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:59 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] nic card I bought

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-06 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
"Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tape drives are ok but CDs seem the better way to go. I've used both and, at least in a Windows world, the CDs are more convenient...cheaper too. Right on. I've been using TR-3 tapes for several years, first on an Iomega drive (a grievous

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-05 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
On Monday, September 04, 2000 7:36 PM, "Carroll Grigsby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] speaking of external modems wrote in part, . In addition to the guaranteed compatibility with any operating system, you get all those neat flashing lights. Those neat flashing lights are a lot of what I loved about my

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-04 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
External is safe but not necessary. There are internal modems (even PCI) which are full hardware modems. The problem is identifying them; most manufacturers don't say which models are Winmodems which are not, even on their websites. For a few weeks now there has been a fellow from OK on eBay

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-03 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
"Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in part: Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read' somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a data CD that can only be

Re: [newbie] Modem Trouble

2000-09-01 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
If you have any Plug-n-Play devices the first thing you should do is tell your BIOS that your OS is NOT a Plug-n-Play OS. When you see what an improvement this makes you will realize that it is a true statement. Best wishes, jam - Original Message - From: "Kelley Terry" [EMAIL