I have a hard drive ....sitting in my laptop case.
I put Ubuntu (Hoary Hedgehog) on it, and every
application looks fine, but it just won't network.
It's an old Dell inspiron 3800, and I'm using an
old Sony Ericsson GC79 nic. I don't even know
where to start. It was easy enough to install,
everything: sound, keyboard, monitor...works
with the exception that even during the install
networking had to be skipped, and not because
of the card I'm now using, but because, it seems
it couldn't find the port (it's an old laptop; uses
PCI for external sound cards and nics) it was looking
for an ethernet port, and I didn't know what to tell it.
I think I'm gonna need the kind of help that'll leave you
shaking your head about me, but I think that help is
worth more than my pride right now. Flame me if you
absolutely must, I'll understand, but please, give me
a clue so I can finally stop using this Windows drive.
I put Ubuntu (Hoary Hedgehog) on it, and every
application looks fine, but it just won't network.
It's an old Dell inspiron 3800, and I'm using an
old Sony Ericsson GC79 nic. I don't even know
where to start. It was easy enough to install,
everything: sound, keyboard, monitor...works
with the exception that even during the install
networking had to be skipped, and not because
of the card I'm now using, but because, it seems
it couldn't find the port (it's an old laptop; uses
PCI for external sound cards and nics) it was looking
for an ethernet port, and I didn't know what to tell it.
I think I'm gonna need the kind of help that'll leave you
shaking your head about me, but I think that help is
worth more than my pride right now. Flame me if you
absolutely must, I'll understand, but please, give me
a clue so I can finally stop using this Windows drive.