[plug] Sundry niggles / Intrepid update

[David Dartnall]

Further to this thread and Blake Munro's suggestion that I upgrade to 
Intrepid and advise how I got on, the answer is very well thank you.

The upgrade advised that there is no driver in Intrepid for my old 
Geforce MX400 video card using the nvidia driver and gave the option of 
aborting the process or accepting the loss of the compix goodies, which 
I accepted.

So now with the system now running very slow I need to buy a new video 
card, - don't need it for gaming - just general use with gimp and 
sometimes photoshop - advice needed here please.

Towards the end of the installation process I answered a number of orca 
options in the affirmative, only to have the machine finally boot up 
with it's crippled video running orca - magnified screen and very slow 
response was a bit daunting at first to rectify before I realised what 
was going on.

'Places' has found both of my Windows disks and both are mounted when 
clicked. It all looks good.

As far as my original niggles are concerned, I'm working on the email 
link problem which has returned. It's too soon to talk about the updates 
icon, and Xsane's copy function problem seems to be related to the 
printer Epson stylus photo R230 where Printing Troubleshooter reports 
"Specified ColorSpace is not supported". Further work at 
http://localhost:631 will be undertaken when I have the time.

But I do need some more advice please: Current setup is Netgear ADSL 
modem router DG834 connected to my wife's and my computers and with 2 
free lan ports. I need to add wireless for a laptop. What do you 
recommend I buy? (Not the laptop, the other gear)

Thanking y'all in anticipation.
Dave Dartnall