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Well that is true of most things in life...some find stuff fun that others don't. Welcome to the world my child, your eyes have been opened. |
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*blank stare* |
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*blank stare* |
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That's okay Alex - we still need people to sweep and answer phones too. |
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*blank stare. wide smile.* |
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linksys wireless cards need the ndiswrapper sounds like a lot of people are having keyboard errors |
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i tried ndiswrapper with many different drivers. some would say that everything was hunky dory, and still not work. i couldn't even get iwconfig to affect any of the card's settings... so, i got a D-link card that would hopefully work with MadWifi... no luck so far with that either. i'm so very frustrated. |
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do you need this wireless thingy? |
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i really want this to work. for the most part playing around with linux has been really fun, but this wireless issue is really really sucking. i've been fucking with it for at least four months, and i just can't seem to get it to work. i'm almost to the point of giving up, and just installing win2k back on this machine for the first time in two years. |
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you need to make sure that wireless support (non ham-radio) is compiled into your kernel I had problems with that when I first tried using the ndiswrapper I'm with you on the frustration thing.. I wanted to shatter my comp for a few days |
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i suppose i don't need it, but righ now my windows machine upstairs is functioning wirelessly, but my wireless router is at the opposite corner of the house, and downstairs, so the connection isn't that strong. the router is downstairs so that i can connect it via ethernet to my linux machine. sometimes when i'm moving lots of files (read: folders of mp3s) the connection fails, and i end up with corrupted mp3s... which is frustrating as shit. i suppose i could put the router in a more central location, and just run ethernet cable through the house, but that's not what i want to do. plus, i read about other people being able to get wireless cards to work on linux, so i know it's possible... but for the son-of-a-bitchin life of me i can't get it to work. |
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how do i check that my kernel is configured properly? i tried to manually configure my kernel, and it didn't work on the first try, so i figured it was more trouble than it was worth, so i used gentoo's built in genkernel to make it for me. |
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at a rootprompt, do an lsmod and see what modules are loaded by the genkernel write them down then, go to the gentoo installation guide, and read their manual configuration instructions make sure to include all of the modules that were listed on your lsmod, as well as the wireless non ham radio drivers |
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oh man, i just went to /etc/kernels/, and checked out my kernel config, and the wireless line was commented out! ...plus, i dont see a module listed in lsmod dude, if you helped me solve this problem i will be more grateful than you could ever know. for reals. |
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have you tried playing potato guy? does that fix your wireless router kernel? |
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do you have an IM client? e-mail addy? |
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yeah, i use miranda at home... but, i haven't used it in months. AIM: epohs1 ICQ: 291909724 Yahoo: epohs0 and, i think i'm epohs on jabber.. you can email me here epohs@blurryphoto.com |
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yo shoooopeeee did you try the latest version, hoary hedgehog? i think it has better wireless support.. but im a linux newb too. i couldnt get my usb wlan adapter to work no matter what (just like you), but strangely enough i didnt have to configure my pcmcia wireless card at all.. i put it in its slot and it worked. linux = world of confusion. r40f: is it working now or what? |
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btw, turn your rantings into helpful critisism; it's actually quite hard for veteran developers to understand the mentality of new users. if you hate linux, or the distro you tried (and fair enough), document /exactly/ what you found so retarded about it. oh, and try ubuntu, it's quite neat. i don't know what your friend installed for you but i sure as hell know there's some retarded fucking distros out there. |
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*cough*gentoo*cough* |
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no, nothing is working... i've tried two new boot disks and they don't let me into the cdrom drive. linux is working more poorly than ever. i don't think it liked my attempt at a revolt. i get the feeling i'm screwed at this point - stuck with this lousy linux. xf - yeah, i know i am clueless about linux, but i get the general idea and it just isn't my thing. it just isn't efficient enough for me. even if i wanted to install a different type of linux (which i don't), i don't think it will let me. i think it's all really fucked at this point. |
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You do realise that if your CD-ROM drive is normally D: it will become E:, any drive after C: is shoved up one due to RAMDisk being used to hold DOS. |
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When you boot from the floppy that is. |
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yes, i tried both letters in every combination of startup-device-orders. |
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No no no :) What you need to do is boot up with your floppy. Go into Fdisk and remove the partition that's there...reformat the drive as a FAT32 then the computer will restart. Let it boot up to floppy again, then at the DOS prompt change it to drive E: or whatever your CD-ROM drive is with the Windows ME disk in. Then type setup and the Windows installer should start :) You could try skipping the fdisk stage and see whether Windows will let you reformat the drive as part of the setup. |
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ubuntu is incredibly easy, you should download the iso, burn it, and boot it! please dont install winME again! pLEASE THINK OF THE KITTENS |
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oh, i guess i skipped a step. i was worried that if the boot disk couldn't read the cdrom drive now, it wouldn't read it after formatting. |
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You don't even use Linux. |
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You start the CD installation from the Windows ME startup floppy not at boot. It is because back in the dark days some BIOS didn't support CD booting. If you computer isn't that powerful (enough to run 2K or XP) I would recommend you source a copy of 98SE it is much better than ME...however I am sure ME will do you just fine :) |
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so i need two disks? the ms-dos boot disk and then the startup disk? |
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i know all about winme's notoriety as a shit version, but it's the one that's worked the best with my computer. i would like to try and get xp working, though... i'll see what i can do. |
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No the MS boot disk is the startup disk, they are the same thing. You just need to be able to access the CD-ROM drive through DOS to begin the installation. Give me 16 hours, I'll hop on a plane and come and fix it for you, it will only take about an hour :D |
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haha - i appreciate your help, man. thanks a lot. i'm sure it's something you'd find totally easy to fix - i'm just quite unfamiliar with it... :) |
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nah, i'm on gentoo right now. i've tried several distros, but since that machine is really just for playing around with gentoo seemed nice because using portage makes it easy to keep the cutting edge new stuff on there. |
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hm this should be easy as fuck. haha, how about me skyping you or something? |
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were you talking to me or r40f? i think Bryce_Berny may've helped me solve my problems.. if that doesn't work though, i'll just fly you over here for a day or two and we can try and figure it out. |
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hehe, no to r40f, sorry. aint touching those ndiswrapperprism_2stinkshit! |
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struggling with ndiswrapper is so 2004. i've moved on past that to MadWifi nowadays.. D': |
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"boot up with your floppy. Go into Fdisk and remove the partition that's there...reformat the drive as a FAT32 then the computer will restart. " ok, i booted up with the floppy and i couldn't run fdisk and i couldn't format the harddrive. why? :/ |
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are you trying to wipe everything from the hard drive? |
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heh, something tells me i'm going to wind up with no computer at all by the end of this, but i'll give it a shot. thanks! |
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dban will wipe every single thing off of your drive. it'll basically turn your drive into a new one from the factory... 'cept, it'll still be old. :-D |
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what do i do? i am so dumb, i can't figure out how to make a floppy image. please help? |
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extract all the files in that zip to a folder, then double click on install.bat. you'll then need to put a floppy disk in the drive, and hit enter. then you should be able to reboot onto the floppy, and it'll start wiping the disk... it could take quite a while though, cause this program is very thourough. |
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believe it or not, that's exactly what i did. i extracted the files and double-clicked install.bat and nothing happened. i'm going to try it again... it just opens install.bat in kwrite. |
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What did it say when you tried to run fdisk? Would you post on a car repair forum and just say "my car doesn't start, why?" be a bit more descriptive. |
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you're right, my bad. i'll try it again and tell you right now. |
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ehm, you arent trying to run a .bat from linux are you? i dont know how linux handles floppies, but i wouldnt recommend making dos bootdisks from a linux box. |
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online r40f from Untied Sates on 2005-04-04 18:18 [#01552840] Points: 6448 Status: Addict | Followup to virginpusher: #01552822 | Show recordbag i don't have soulseek anyway, man. :( i'm working on linux at the moment and i can't figure out how to install it. i guess thats a yes... :| |
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bad command or filename and there's nothing on my disk that says fdisk, so i guess that would explain it. it also doesn't let me read c: or d: at all. it says invalid dir or whatever. fsprok - yes i am. i don't know what i'm doing basically. i'm getting desparate. ;) |
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