Hopefully the subject caught someone's eye!

I finally got Debian installed, although with some problems. First off,
my "particluar" network card isn't recognized (Netgear FA311), so I
could not get it installed. Of course, since I can't get the system to
recognize the fact that there is a network card, I can't get it to do
updates via apt-get from the internet.

This brings up another issue, if I download an app such as Wine, can I
burn it to a cd on my XP Pro machine and install it it on the Linux box?
If so, I have looked for a way to access the cd-rom from within Linux,
but it isn't
cooperating either. (it's pretty much my fault, no doubt)

Or, (and here's the tricky question) Should I re-install everything?

I had to install Win98 just to be able to load the Linux files from a
CD, then run the boot program from DOS. I must hjave gone the long way,
but it seemed to work until you get to the no network card part (apply
Murphy's law -here-).

I did my reading prior to the install, and I tried (hopefully) to
install the proper version (bf2.4) since it was supposed to have the
latest drivers for things such as network cards etc. as well.

It is also a very good possibility that I screwed up somewhere along the
way during installation. I am an old dog, and these are new tricks. <G>


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even a point in the right
direction for some additional reading material.





DPRoberts