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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

The friend for whose daughter we made a linux/opera computer brought his 
own by for some fixes.  Win98FE with some vxd files missing at boot time. 
Did an upgrade for 2 hours and the vxd files are still missing and it put 
all the AOL/MSN junk back.  He said he needed a modem driver. He had the 
driver, it dialed and connected and refuses to access any websites (no DNS 
numbers used, the provider provides them).  I have a laptop like that - 
goes online with a winmodem and can't even ping, will not recognize a 
hardware modem but the latter works perfectly in BL3.

After seeing a demo of linux he asked if we could add it to his computer.
His modem (which dials) is a lucent pci modem.

He had a D: partition with a second copy of OFFICE, some drivers that he 
had forgotten about which I moved the C: and a 1.2GB 1999 file in bkpimg 
which I deleted.  I made a 200MB ext2 partition instead of an extended 
with 2.4GB, and left space for BL2 some day.  He wants to switch over 
gradually to linux.

I copied over a tgz from another computer to which I had added abiword and 
a few other things for someone else (not the 9 year old) and it works out 
of the box with Xvesa (Riva video).

The ltmodem works perfectly and I am online with it now.

It took about 15 minutes to install BL3, mainly for removing the junk in 
D: and making a partition.  We had spent at least 2 hours trying to make 
Windows work online.

He hates IE, prefers Opera, and thought he needed WORD for writing letters 
until I showed him how to print text with cat filename > /dev/lp0, and 
read USB memory sticks with 'usb-on' from a menu in X, and type o for 
opera.

THere is a PCI wireless network card which looks like a v3 WPC11, which I 
will eventually set up in linux.  insmod hermes and orinoco?

Three out of four computers we did this week are linux (the other being 
for 7 kids in daycare who brought us pictures of computers and mice and 
each other).

Sindi