There's more than one way to skin...
Sep. 27th, 2007 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThe reinstall finished up and just then I remembered there is some kind of funky issue with the ethernet card in that machine. The Dell drivers quit recognizing it a while back.
I got it working last time but no clue how and this time I tried a few things but finally said fuck it, I'll just use USB to connect the DSL modem to the machine.
Well, that wouldn't work. I have limited non-motherboard hub USB ports on that machine so I said fuck that, I'll use the wireless adapter.
Well, it didn't like that either. So.... I pulled out a cheapo wireless adapter that I got a while back and now can't remember why and bingo... finally... whew!
Now it's giving me a attitude about downloading and installing updates. Geesh.
If I need to hook the modem up to the computer directly, I can ethernet it to the Vista machine or, actually, any one of the other computers.
If it's not one thing, it's another...
I got it working last time but no clue how and this time I tried a few things but finally said fuck it, I'll just use USB to connect the DSL modem to the machine.
Well, that wouldn't work. I have limited non-motherboard hub USB ports on that machine so I said fuck that, I'll use the wireless adapter.
Well, it didn't like that either. So.... I pulled out a cheapo wireless adapter that I got a while back and now can't remember why and bingo... finally... whew!
Now it's giving me a attitude about downloading and installing updates. Geesh.
If I need to hook the modem up to the computer directly, I can ethernet it to the Vista machine or, actually, any one of the other computers.
If it's not one thing, it's another...
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Date: 2007-09-28 11:38 am (UTC)