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neo_x500:
I feel really stupid now. I felt like I knew so much about computers before and suddenly realized I wasn't intelligent but they let me think that because I was "special". Anyway, I have to start over as a newbie now. I have a few questions now that I'm linux. I've spent the last couple of days playing around with it, and I've walked away with a big head ache. My modem won't work with linux, it is a winmodem, and neither will the sound card, because it is a combination with the modem. I did find a driver for it, from conexant. They sent me to a site called linuxant. Anyway, the driver is in an RPM package, I finally figured out what that was, only problem is that when I go to try and install the modems it gives me an erroe message. For some reason both programs are need pciutils to work, and I don't know what that is. Also, where do I find wine. Any RPMs I use give me some sort of error message or another, and so far, linux looks all nice and pretty, but old billy's program is doing the work. Please, somebody help me.

Laukev7:
Ah yes, RPM dependencies. Don't feel stupid because of that; it's a major problem that many Linux users have to cope with.

Now let's see... pciutils and Wine? Are they included with your Linux distro (I think it's Mandrake)? If they're not included, then you should go to Penguin Liberation Front http://plf.zarb.org/ to get RPMs compatible with Mandrake (if that's what you use). Maybe you'll find what you need there. Since you have no internet access from Linux, you'll have to download your files and solve the dependencies manually.

neo_x500:
Yes, I'm using mandrake, and I am not sure if this stuff is included with the distro. pciutils is something for pci cards I'm assuming. If I could dig that up than maybe I would have a shot at getting internet and sound up and running. As for wine, I found rpms with the name wine in a lot of them, but whenever I clicked on any of them to install, the module dependency issue became apparant. This would all be a lot easier if there was a linux user group in hastings, but since there is not, I'm kinda on my own.

SAJChurchey:
One of my best tools in fighting depencies is rpmfind.net  I just type in the package name, perhaps the version number, and look for my distro.  It's quick and easy, and DAMN this sounds like a commercial, how odd.

neo_x500:
ok, it is starting to piss me off now. I found pciutils off the net, and I went to install it, but it tells me that pciutils is already installed. I apparently already have it, the computerjust doesn't give me a clue on where it's at or how to use it. By the way, how do I run a program from the terminals. just typing in the name of the file won't work. Another question, how do I log in as root. I am the only one who uses the computer, so I set no password. I'm not sure how to do a lot of things in linux, but these are by far the most disableing.

[ June 17, 2003: Message edited by: Neo_Linux_User ]

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