Re: A series of newbieite questions

[Timmy Douglas <tdouglas@home.com>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:37:11PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> ObeseWhale wrote:
> 
> > 1.  Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux.  It give me the
> > graphical login screen and everything.  This is annoying because I don't
> > seem to be capable of exiting X...  Is there any way to stop Debian from
> > running xdm on startup?
> 
> You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm).

or if you want to keep xdm, insert 'exit 0;' at the top of:
/etc/init.d/xdm

> 
> > 2.  My ethernet card, a Netgear fa310tx, came with a driver disk.  The disk
> > has a linux directory with but one file 'tulip.c', which is clearly the
> > driver...  How do I install this to get my ethernet card working?
> 
> I don't really know... I'd probably try 'gcc -c tulip.c', followed by
> 'insmod tulip.o'. Isn't there a readme or anything on the disk?

there should be compile instructions if you type:

tail tulip.c

otherwise, you may be able to use the tulip module in the kernel