I really liked Mepis. I think it's one of the better Debian-based distros next to Knoppix. I liked Knoppix, but it wouldn't boot on my laptop. In fact, I couldn't boot any live cd that was...

Anyone using Arch? I've been playing with it for a week now, and I have to say that after trying many other distros, this one is a winner for me. I got tired of bloated distros and I don't like...

Look in /boot/grub for the file grub.conf. Open it in a text editor. Study it carefully so that you have some understanding of what you're looking at then delete the entry you don't want. Make sure...

Just wanted to inject that I did purchase the dlink 650 (not the 650+) and there has been yet another revision in the chipset. (Rev M1)

It has a realtek chipset of some type, that without a lot of...

Log in as root and then edit this file: /etc/inittab.

Find this line: id:5:initdefault
change it to: id:3:initdefault

reboot

A friend of mine (mistakenly) bought the same card for his linux laptop and he told me that it used a Texas Instruments chipset and that it did not work. I later read and confirmed that the d link...

Correction:

I said, "you'll probably still need to edit the config file located in /etc/pcmcia/config ".

Actually, you won't need to edit "that" config file because it's not a pcmcia card....

I'm currently running a RH9 box at home that serves as my web and mail servers along with some other things. It's not going to be easy to sum up how to accomplish everything you want to do with a few...