Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Open it again this time as super user:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>sudo gedit /etc/modules</pre><hr />
Add it at the bottom of the list and save like so:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
ndiswrapper
</pre><hr />

edit: Why o why has it taken to double spacing stuff inside code tags? It wasn't a few posts ago...

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Para, I owe you a beer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Wireless is workign great now. Thanks for all the help.

Geoschmo

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

No problem. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Wish I'd opened this last week; I have a brand new OEM copy of XP:Pro, still in the cellophane wrapper.

Oops,
TT

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

What? You could have used Linux instead? Or you would have bought a retail copy of XP at the higher price instead?

I'll take the XP package if you don't want to use it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway.

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Until April, 2014:
End of extended support for XP prof and home ... .

Lets hope Reactos and/or Linux are really usuable by then!

(and if anyone else has a wrapped version of XP prof lying around - I would be glad to help him getting rid of it ;-) )

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP fer cryin out loud, and a Vista machine would cost less than a grand. Still, I'm all in favour of the user-friendly Linux idea. That'd be sweet.

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

A "vista machine" only costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $600 US, including the ability to run Aero.

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Aero? Oreo? what do cookies have to do with vista?

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Give Microsoft Oreos and get Vista Aero