I've found the diskette that came with the ethernet card. It's an rtl8139. Pretty sure I didn't see this in the network devices list, though. I'm going to go look again. Luke Davis writes: > From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net> > > The ethernet howto has a section on finding oddball cards. > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > No, I didn't do that. It's not necessary on Red Hat, so I didn't even > > think of it. > > > > And, I don't know as I'd have a compatible system for it? My only > > working Debian box is an Alpha processor. The machine I'm building is an > > older Pentium. > > > > By the way, it isn't detecting my PCI ethernet card. That's too bad, > > because I don't recall it's type. It's something I picked up at a show > > for $5. > > > > One step at a time, I guess. > > > > Gregory Nowak writes: > > > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > > > > > > After editingsyslinux.cfg,did you run/usr/local/bin/syslinuxon your system, with the name of your floppy image or/dev/fd0as the argument to the syslinux binary? > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net > > > >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > >Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:36:21 -0400 > > > >Subject: Re: Installing from the Woody Disks -- How? > > > > > > >Thanks, Luke. > > > > > > >It's chattering now, so I guess I'm on my way installing. > > > > > > >Where was I stuck? I tried to hand edit syslinux.cfg to add > > > >xpeakup_synth=XXX, noting that "linux" was the default kernel. I > > > >doublechecked and didn't find errors. > > > > > > >So, I re-imaged the resc1440.bin floppy and entered 'boot > > > >speakup_synth=dtlk' by hand. > > > > > > >Search me. I should think the other would also have worked, but that's > > > >academic to me at this point. > > > > > > >PS: I did look at the docs before posting. There's nothing at all in the > > > >woody directory--except the warning to not select any keymap whatsoever. > > > >And, of course the Debian docs don't refer to a Speakup option--not that > > > >the process is all that different from other distros. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
