[plug] Source Mage - I'm not having fun yet...

[Craig Dyke]

Jim

Glad to see you have made some progress.

I am curious, are you on dialup or cable?
(just that two hours seems like a long time for emacs)

Have you checked all the correct information is recorded for your card?
Look in /etc/sysconfig/net and there should be two devices listed, one 
for looping (lo)
and the other for net card (eth0).

I have also gone to the point of setting the IP statically at first to 
confirm
that I have a working card (of course this won't work if no card is 
available).

You could also check that your kernel config has the necessary driver 
for your card.

Chin up :) I found using this distro to be very rewarding both as a 
distro and a learning tool
for Linux in general

Craig

>>
> I've had much better luck this time around.  I left step 6 running 
> overnight, and all but 5 spells completed ok.  I cast emacs and went 
> out for about 2 hours.  When I came back I had emacs.
>
> Since then I rebooted, and have lost the network.  Any reference to 
> eth0 results in a 'device not found' error.  This email is sent from 
> the same hardware using a different OS.
>
> There is a very steep initial learning curve.  If it does not level 
> off soon, I will not be joining the fans of source-based distros.
>
> Have to give it a try though.
>
> Jim