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Ok i must be really dumb and missing something obvious but when trying to install my dlink gwl-520+ wireless card on red had linux it wouldnt recognise it, no probs, went on windows, put the driver on a floppy, now how the hell do i get to the floppy disc, i cant see a way at all! Help!

Ok i must be really dumb and missing something obvious but when trying to install my dlink gwl-520+ wireless card on red had linux it wouldnt recognise it, no probs, went on windows, put the driver on a floppy, now how the hell do i get to the floppy disc, i cant see a way at all! Help!

Open a terminal/console window.

"su" yourself (Super User) and type in your root password.

Wait a sec - Red Hat? Hmmm, I'm unsure.....

Tell me, list the contents of your /dev/ folder on here.

(Do this by typing "ls /dev/")

eh, type it where, sorry im a complete n00b at linux

In an X-Terminal window.

You guys SUCK.

You need to find out if RH automounts the floppy. Place the floppy in the drive and look in /mnt/floppy, either with the graphical explorer, or by runnning "ls /mnt/floppy" in a terminal.

If there's nothing there, you need to mount the floppy. Do this by running, in the terminal:

"mount /dev/fd0 /floppy"

You need to be root to do this. Alternatively, there's probably an option in the "disks" section of redhat's control panel.

Now you should be able to read your files.

What if he hasn't got a /mnt/floppy folder - eh, EH?

I needed him to check his /dev/ folder because some devices are given rubbish names like /dev/floppy/fd0 or /dev/fd0

mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy

ah this si so frustrating, ive got into the floppy, thanks for that help, but now what do I do??? Does linux not run .exe files? Oh yeah and this is painful, where do you change the refresh rate? Ive checked in display stuff but its not there

.exe files are Windows executables.

You might have to find proper graphics drivers for your card before you can change the refresh rate.

This is why I hate Red Hat/Mandrake etc - once you've installed you have no idea of what to do from then on.

yeah i might just stick to windows, the only problem is the cost and instablitity

Or - Go for a more "hardcore" style distribution like me and (I think Turbonutter).

I use Gentoo Linux, it's an operating system in which you compile everything from source, you set compile operations and you learn loads of stuff throughout the installation process. Nothing is hidden from you, and the user community is great.
[URL]http://www.gentoo.org[/URL]


Turbonutter uses Debian I think, similar to Gentoo in a way, except the compiling thing.
[URL]http://www.debian.org[/URL]


Then there is FreeBSD [URL]http://freebsd.org[/URL] etc

Mandrake/RedHat are just Windows clones, they hardly teach you anything about Linux, and it usually leads to frustration.