[plug] Sundry niggles / Intrepid update

[David Dartnall]

Richard Meyer wrote:
> 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 .....
>   

That sounds pretty good to me: I haven't had the need to network to 
Lois' computer anyway.
What about the video card?
DD