daklander
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Posted: Dec. 09 2005,18:16 |
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I really need some help with this one.
I've been fighting Wireless and the latests 2.1 RC1 was the first time I've had luck getting it running. I was really jacked up about getting that going and fired up Firefox to post success. LOCK UP! Big time, both mouse and keyboard. No key functions would work so no ctr/alt anything....
I tried a warm boot and got a bunch of errors showing so I did a cold boot and it came back up. Same problem. With the subsequent cold boot I had the corrupt files notices again so I did a re-install. Same problem. That happened several times.
Now I figured I'd try the 2.0 version and actually, for the first time with that got wireless running. (apparently there is a need to have the nidswrapper drivers in /home/dsl and nowhere else....
Anyway, same problems. I also had that same issue with no internet connection, no browsers open & etc but running XMMS to play a CD.
I never noticed an issue with lockups running live though I had no internet running live.
This is an Athlon K6 350 with 196 MB of RAM, a solo 3 gig hard drive partitioned to 2.8 gigs as hda1 and the rest as swap at hda5. There is NO fat partition. I have the Linux and the Linux swap. Grub on MBR. One CDROM and a 3 1/2" floppy. A Soundblaster soundcard and a Matrox Millenium video card are what are in ISA slots, if I remember, and the mouse card is, I think a pci card. I'd have to open the box to check if that makes a difference. The keyboard is the old, large connector, non-PS/2 keyboard.
No problems with the other small distros I've tried.
This particular computer is intended for use in my garage to stream audio in lieu of a radio so I want a distro that is minimal in using resources and I don't really need a spreadsheet, word processor & etc so the small programs in DSL are fine until I learn how to remove them. I would presume via apt-get but that's for later.
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