[NTLUG:Discuss] newbie making *some* progress

[Clay Ramsey]

Good evening all....

I scrubbed the RH73 that was on my Dell Lat. CPi notebook.  I put RH9 on
there, and it seems better in almost all aspects.

BUT...

The USB 3Com nic I have is just not being seen..... I have traffic
indicators on it, but the OS is just not seeing it.  It is assigning
eth0 to an empty PCMCIA bay.  How do I make the USB NIC eth0?  

On a related note..... can you point me to a site that will list CLI
commands for Linux?  In particular, stop/start of the networking
service....

I appreciate the help.  I will try to make it out Sat AM.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
Behalf Of Lance Simmons
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:45 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux destro recommandation

* Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031218 17:57]:
> 
> Debian is a good wild card choice... especially some of the
> prepackaged variants (like Knoppix and the gazillion Knoppix follow
> ons).  Hardware detection is excellent.  Nice to see a fall back to
> using the frame buffer for X automatically if nothing else works!!
> Good job.

Debian also has excellent community-based support, which is something
the original post asked about.  Very active email lists and IRQ channels
make it easy to get quick, useful answers to your Debian questions.  Bug
reporting is painless and well-organized (and I've seen bugs reported
and fixed within a matter of hours).  There's every reason to think the
change from the RH support model to the Fedora support model will work
out fine, but the Debian community has been doing for years what Fedora
is (IIUC) now gearing up to do.  But I don't have any Fedora experience,
so I can't make a direct comparison.

-- 
Lance Simmons

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