I finally got Ubuntu up and running. I had some extra parts lying around, and wanted to mess with my old Celeron based computer, (my first system ever!). I had Red Hat 9 up and runnng on it, which was a far better OS than 98se that I had previously run on it. I had swapped the Celeron 366mhz that was running well, for a PIII 600mhz monster, added a better video card (GeForce2 400) and added a DLink wireless card to the system. Boosted up the memory speed, and CPU multiplier (remember jumpers?) and this thing flies!! My question is do I need specific drivers for the wireless card? When I go to the network settings, the wireless connection is disabled. When I click on “enable this connection”, then close the properties, it's still disabled. Obviously I'm doing something wrong, or not doing something that I need to do. So far I haven't needed to get any additional drivers for anything. Although I only have about an hours worth of messing around with it. I do love it so far though! Thanks. Emachines T-2200, Sound Blaster live 5.1, ATI 9200se main comp Asus A7N8X, AMD 2500 Barton, 1 gig Corsair, Geforce 4200ti

Sorry, I got ahead of myself. I also was wondering if I add a second HDD that was formated as FAT 32 with 98se, can I read the files on it with Ubuntu? Emachines T-2200, Sound Blaster live 5.1, ATI 9200se main comp Asus A7N8X, AMD 2500 Barton, 1 gig Corsair, Geforce 4200ti

Yes Linux supports FAT12/16/32 and for your WiFi Card look for NDISWRAPPER

Stingerssx: Wireless can be difficult to get working under Linux. Usually if there is not a specific Linux driver (do an Internet search for your specific NIC and Redhat 9.0) than the ndiswrapper is about the only other thing that "might" get it going. Wireless is usually harder to get working in older versions of Linux. You may not be able to get the wireless working. In that case popular wired NICs (such as 3Com 3c905 series or anything with a Realtek 8139 chipset) are usually well supported and easy to get going.

Actually, I don't have Red Hat on this system anymore, I finally got Ubuntu working. After messing with it for a while, I think that I have both the wired and wireless connections up and connected. I use my other computer to see the router, and there are two more addresses. There are three addresses with host names, (my other machines) and two with out names. I checked on the Ubuntu machine, and the addresses on both of the ehto(s), match up. I currently have them set up DHCP, but I'd like to be able to manually assign the addresses also. Basically I just want to know as much as possible about Ubuntu. I still have an HDD that is filled with music that was formatted with FAT 32 under 98se, and I'd like see the mp3s with Ubuntu. Emachines T-2200, Sound Blaster live 5.1, ATI 9200se main comp Asus A7N8X, AMD 2500 Barton, 1 gig Corsair, Geforce 4200ti

As long as you know what dev the drive is under in Linux just type in a shell: mount /dev/<device_name> -t vfat /<some_directory> Also be sure you are using a kernel that has support for this file system built-in otherwise you'll need to compile up a kernel to add in fatfs support. Once the windows file system has been mounted to a directory just go to that directory to get access to it. Here's an example I have two hard drives in my system. The second hard drive has 1 partition with a fat32 file system. I'd mount that with: mount /dev/hdb1 -t vfat /mnt

I will add two caveats to Acrosanti's direction. 1). Make sure the directory you want to use as a mount point exists (e.g.: /mnt/win) 2). Mount other file systems to directories under /mnt so the command would become mount /dev/hdb1 -t vfat /mnt/win You will suffer no ill effects if you mount the partition directly to /mnt. The reason I always mount external partitions to directories under /mnt rather than directly to /mnt is that I can then create a new directory for any new mount point I need, and I can still access them all in one single branch of the directory tree. HTH, Ernie Registered Linux User 247790 ICQ 41060744