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12-11-2002, 11:57 PM
Yet another pathetic newbie screaming all of his problems into the darkness! Oh boy!
So, I just installed Mandrake 9.0. Yeah, it's cool. It'd be even cooler if it let me use my printer, CD burner, or wireless network adapter.
The printer is a Lexmark Z12. Now, it would figure that Mandrake had options during installation for a Lexmark Z11, Z13, even a Z22--but no Z12. {I tried all of the above, with varying degrees of failure.} Does anyone out there use a Z12, or know what I have to do to get mine to work?
The CD burner is a BACKPACK USB CD-RW, model no. 193200. Mandrake seems to recognize that something's plugged in the USB port, but it has no idea what it is. How do I clue it in?
The last problem is a Linksys Wireless USB network adapter, version 2.6. I already posted to the previous Linksys thread, but I figure it can't hurt to repeat the request here. Again, Mandrake knows there's something there {it even realizes it's a Linksys}, but it doesn't know what to do with it.
And um, the other thing is, I'm horribly confused by all this 'make' stuff. Yeah, yeah, I'm ignorant, I know. Every time I've tried {like with the driver posted at atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net, for instance}, the terminal screen fills up with text, I get a bunch of error messages at the end, and everything still doesn't work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong; I type exactly what the readme says to type, but.... Anyway, my point is, if you can help me, a detailed, accurate walkthrough would be so, so appreciated.
Any and all help would be fantastic--the sooner I get this stuff up and running {well, the burner's not as important as the other two}, the sooner I can stop trudging through Windows! Thanks!
So, I just installed Mandrake 9.0. Yeah, it's cool. It'd be even cooler if it let me use my printer, CD burner, or wireless network adapter.
The printer is a Lexmark Z12. Now, it would figure that Mandrake had options during installation for a Lexmark Z11, Z13, even a Z22--but no Z12. {I tried all of the above, with varying degrees of failure.} Does anyone out there use a Z12, or know what I have to do to get mine to work?
The CD burner is a BACKPACK USB CD-RW, model no. 193200. Mandrake seems to recognize that something's plugged in the USB port, but it has no idea what it is. How do I clue it in?
The last problem is a Linksys Wireless USB network adapter, version 2.6. I already posted to the previous Linksys thread, but I figure it can't hurt to repeat the request here. Again, Mandrake knows there's something there {it even realizes it's a Linksys}, but it doesn't know what to do with it.
And um, the other thing is, I'm horribly confused by all this 'make' stuff. Yeah, yeah, I'm ignorant, I know. Every time I've tried {like with the driver posted at atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net, for instance}, the terminal screen fills up with text, I get a bunch of error messages at the end, and everything still doesn't work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong; I type exactly what the readme says to type, but.... Anyway, my point is, if you can help me, a detailed, accurate walkthrough would be so, so appreciated.
Any and all help would be fantastic--the sooner I get this stuff up and running {well, the burner's not as important as the other two}, the sooner I can stop trudging through Windows! Thanks!