[newbie] elements ethernet card not recognized

2002-01-18 Thread Thomas Wildeman
Hello, I just installed 8.1 on my computer, a p3 933 with 256ram, and a decent geforce3 video cardall went well except for the fact that i couldn't get mandrake to locate the drivers for my Elements ethernet card. I have them for windose2kpro, of course. Is there a driver i didn't try that

[newbie] does mandrake 8.1 support my elements ethernet card?

2002-01-17 Thread Thomas Wildeman
Hello, I just installed 8.1 on my computer, a p3 933 with 256ram, and a decent geforce3 video cardall went well except for the fact that i couldn't get mandrake to locate the drivers for my ethernet card. I have them for windose2kpro, of course. Is there a driver i didn't try that

[newbie] can I save to a floppy directly from wordstar?

2002-01-16 Thread Thomas Wildeman
Hello, I am running 8.1 and I do enjoy it, but I wanted to know if it is possible to save directly to a floppy from wordstar or the gimp or any other program? If so, how would I do this? So far I have been saving to a directory and then dragging and dropping my files onto the floppy in the

[newbie] no sound

2002-01-13 Thread Thomas Wildeman
Hello, I have installed 8.1 easily except for the fact that i can't get any sound. I went to control center/hardware and then the system blacks out...and i have to reboot. I am a complete newbie with regard to Linux, having only used windows 3.1,95/8 and 2000 up to this point, and so I have

Re: [newbie] no sound

2002-01-13 Thread Thomas Wildeman
Hehe, thaNKS heaps for the crtl+alt+f7m advice; I was able to get some sound configuration going! Again, thanks:) No if only I could learn to save directly from a program like starword or the gimp to a floppy i will feel as though i getting somewhere. good cheer, thmswldmn From: Mark D'voo