Andy Chase

By the way, if you're one of the two or three regular readers you may be wondering what happened with my adventures in Linux From Scratch.



Well, not much yet- I'm still stuck on the network card. I've compiled the driver into the kernel and as a separate module, installed it in a different PCI slot , juggled config files, all kinds of stuff, and I still can't get any further than the gateway machine. And because I mounted my other Linux partition to get at a couple of its config files for comparision, I've somehow managed to make my Mandrake installation unbootable.



I'm pretty sure the problem has something to do with the fact the this machine connects to the gateway machine via a crossover cable and not through a hub, but I don't know what to do about it; the card works just fine under Mandrake, and my Linux knowledge just isn't at a level where I can pick through all the config and startup scripts to figure out what Mandrake does differently.



I think I have a D-Link NIC lying around somewhere - I may pull the Netgear card that's currently in this machine and see if I can get things working with that one instead. If I get the same cryptic "Full Duplex" message from the D-Link card at least I'll know something is up with the kernel and not the Netgear card.



Maybe this weekend.