{"id":361,"date":"2002-10-03T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-361.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"first-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/03\/first-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"First Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/categories\/martins_annual_linux_experience\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0px 5px 5px 0px;\" height=\"103\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Martin's Annual Linux Experience 2002\" src=\"\/martin\/images\/2002\/09\/male2002_1.gif\" \/><\/a> On Tuesday I ordered a copy of SuSE Linux 8.1 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dabs.com\">Dabs<\/a>, and it arrived this morning.  Yay!  The installation process was quite simple: I chose the basic install, with KDE and OpenOffice, and added a few other things, like Mozilla and Opera.  The installer ran through its paces, picked up my graphics card, monitor, printer and webcam&#8230; but no network.<\/p>\n<p>We run a wireless network here at Sunpig Central.  For me, this means I have a PCMCIA wireless card (a WebGear Aviator Pro from a couple of years ago) stuck in a PCMCIA adapter.  According to the PCMCIA documentation within Linux, this card should work.  I know it works, because on my last two Linux adventures I have had it working.  But the SuSE installer didn&#8217;t pick it up.  So now I&#8217;m trying desperately to remember what I did the last time to get it running.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, thanks to the wonders of broadband, I also happen to have a set of Mandrake 9.0 ISO images.  I&#8217;m in the middle of burning these to CD-ROM right now, and I might just try installing it to see if it&#8217;s any better at detecting the PCMCIA card.<\/p>\n<p>Any Linux gurus out there, please feel free to comment on my plight&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I ordered a copy of SuSE Linux 8.1 from Dabs, and it arrived this morning. Yay! The installation process was quite simple: I chose the basic install, with KDE and OpenOffice, and added a few other things, like Mozilla and Opera. The installer ran through its paces, picked up my graphics card, monitor, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/03\/first-boot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Boot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martins_annual_linux_experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}