[OFB Cafe] that having been said . . .

[Fred A. Miller]

dep wrote:
> said Timothy Butler:
> | > yippee. now i have a very slow computer for my bedside table!
> |
> | 	Yippee indeed! Perhaps it would run faster using Xubuntu?
> 
> well, i was wrong. i foolishly saw a "network" settings thing in some menu, 
> so i went in and put in values i knew to be correct -- and now it doesn't 
> work. there is a dandy app rutilt, that of course isn't installed.
> 
> problem now is that the little portable isn't getting an ip address. won't 
> even work with the router wide open, no authentication at all.
> 
> i've looked through all of /etc to see what file may have gotten written 
> to, but can't find such a thing. so it worked just long enough for me to 
> d/l a new opera and send one email message.
> 
> i am beginning to get cranky. again, all day on something that ought to 
> take five minutes.

'One of the reasons I'm so down on Broadcom!!

Fred

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