Wow…what a difference.
Last night in my insomniatic fit for the month, I decided to work installing Debian.
apotheon wasn’t kidding when he told me it wasn’t a starter distro. I installed it…no GUI. I “apt-get install kde” and KDE didn’t load after install.
hm…this is a way different beast than it was in 1999.
Then I installed Kubuntu. I went to the sourceforge site and tried following directions to install the driver for my wireless card. No luck. Couldn’t compile…couldn’t ifconfig…weird. Got the insmod to work, but Kubuntu didn’t even find my wireless card on the PCI bus so the driver didn’t associate to it.
So, I think it’s either back to Mandrake or I might try Gentoo next. I don’t know. I just know I need to have it detect a wireless card so that I can get updates and what not and start getting comfortable with the KDE/Gnome names for programs and what they do, and start learning the different packages and what they contain.
I gotta go buy Linux for Dummies…if that will even help.
