[plug] Sundry niggles / Intrepid update

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:39 +0900, Mike Holland wrote:
> David Dartnall wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The MX400 is AGP, isn't it? The new ones are all PCIe.
> My advice is to stick with Hardy until you buy a whole new computer.

Dave - I have a spare AGP Nvidia card here that I'm sure is mre modern
than what you have ...

let me know  - the price is talking to me for 20 mons or so ... and oh,
yes, you jave to collect from Currambine.
> 
> 
> > 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)
> 
> Get a DG834G, and umm ... keep the old one as a backup?
> Not much point buying a WAP without ADSL is there?

I just plugged mine in downstream from the Alcatel ADSL "modem" I
have ... On the same "line" I used when i had a hub in my "laborotary"
where I had a hub before. So, yes, my WAP doesn't have ADSL - and I'm
happy that way.


-- 
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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