Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell Laptop...

2000-12-05 Thread Paul R
Hi. I also have a Dell laptop (Inspiron) with the Xircom Cardbus Ethernet + Modem. I haven't had many problems with linux. I'm assuming you've got a DSL or Cable connection if you want it to pick up the IP on startup. This I believe is a quirk with the Xircom cardbus, it work "fine" with L

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell Laptop...

2000-12-04 Thread Romanator
Whoah Dave, Can you increase your font size, we can't read your questions? Roman

RE:[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell Laptop...

2000-12-04 Thread Dave Peat
Is it hanging on the floppy drive?  I installed Mandrake on a DELL Laptop also and even though I never had the floppy drive in the machine it automagically mounted it during startup.  Then it would hang trying to unmount it.  If this is the case, edit the /etc/fstab and comment out the line