Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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