Debian nic drivers

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay
> 
> 
> Since this is your laptop, try booting with the frame buffer 
> video option.  That helps with LCD screens.
> Mepis looks good.  Meaning it has everything you would need, 
> but it doesn't have all the bells and whistles enabled by 
> default like Knoppix.  You don't start w/ a super GUI theme, 
> but its there or you can add it.
Well Mepis did the trick. Although I'm not sure what is meant by
a super GUI theme. Mepis is pretty heavily GUI. It wants 128MB
of RAM and 2.8GB of disk. I uninstalled KDE, kdm, DVD stuff, a
bunch of games, and CD writing stuff. Still have a lot of other
stuff to remove. I freed up about 1GB so far. I also have to
reconfigure X and probably modify the boot scripts. I also installed 
XFCE4 and one added bonus is I also have a 2.6 kernel now to play with.
So I hit a bump that frustrates me for a while and get back something
useful and something new to play with. One last question on this, how
do you get entries with an install status of (RC - removed, Configuration
files) to go away from the dpkg database?

<related topic>
Found out something new about RH9, yesterday (maybe not new to RHians).
My brother was trying to install an RPM and didn't know how to make it
"run" (yes he's a newbie). I gave him various methods and recommendations
and finally he opened a file manager and double-clicked on it. It gave a
message about checking for dependencies and installed, which is nice to
know. It was a minor RPM, and probably an upgrade to an existing package,
so I don't know if it went and pulled any or would know how to go and
pull any unmet dependencies.
</related>

Thanks all for the suggestions,
Brian