[plug] Sundry niggles / Intrepid update

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 18:47 +0900, David Dartnall wrote:
> 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
> 


Glad you're "sorta" happy, Dave.

For wireless I use a Netgear WGR614, which I plug in downstream of the
main router/ADSL_modem. 

it gives the advantage of having NATting as a firewall twice, but it
DOES split your home network into two networks (those "upstream" and
those "downstream"). In this case I don't care, because my "laboratory"
is nicely separated from the family, but I can still peep at them ....
your circumstances may well be different.

That's what I do anyway - you may want to do something different .....


-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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