[luau] Installing packages

[Dan George]

Hi Gang
              Have a problem installing driver for my netgear NIC on my Sony
Vaio Laptop. I installed 7.1  but no drivers available except for 7.0.  Will
those work for 7.1 on my Laptop if I update it?  How do I get those drivers
off the CD to the etc file that has all the drivers? Im just a basic user
(just took my first Linux class) but really would like to get this PCM card
rolling. What other card would you recommend that works with Linux?  Also
have a copy of 7.2 that the Sony LPT wouldnt recognize on boot.  The startup
disk I have for 7.0 wouldnt work for 7.2 but did work for 7.1, why?

Thanks
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Installing packages


> The equivalent of Cooker in Red Hat is Rawhide, and no, up2date does only
> official packages + updates.
>
> Cooker or Rawhide will have difficulty installing onto the latest stable
> release because often packages require MANY other updates.  It is also
often
> not a good idea to upgrade unless you really know what you are doing,
> because many of those packages especially in Gnome2 or KDE3.1 are very
> unstable.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "Luau Mailing List" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [luau] Installing packages
>
>
> > Does it do the newest packages? (ie. equivalent to Mandrake cooker
> > packages)? Or is it better to stick with te packages only available on
> > up2date?
> >
> > > If you are installing official Red Hat packages up2date at the command
> line
> > > never fails.  You need to be registered and entitled with RHN, but you
> get
> > > one free machine entitlement so that's usually okay.
>
>
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