Did you install the "n" package sets for networking when you installed? On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, extrinsik wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Today windows 95 failed horribly for my mother while i tried to install > a NIC so we could lan up. It told me to "run setup to reconfigure it", > but my serial is long gone for windows 95. So, I am gladly installing > linux on it for my mother. > > I had my Slackware 9.1 cds, so I put them and started to install. I did > it in expert mode, so I could make it a bit smaller. I selected the > lowmem.i kernel, just to make sure it ran a bit faster. Oh yeah, maybe I > should tell the specs of the machine > > 166mhz cyrix (yes; that isn't a typo. A cyrix) > 16mbs of ram > 2 gig hd (ide) > > Anyways, I booted in to start X, and I get a "Address family not > supported by protocol" somewhere in the mess of not being able to > setting its services up. This is like this for pretty much any > application that wants to set up on a local port. > > So, I thought it was the lowmem.i kernel. So what I did was copy the > bare.i kernel files to the /boot directory (naming them accordingly; > config-ide-2.4.22, vmlinuz-ide-2.4.22, etc). This didn't work either. > Then, I thought it was to do with some of the base packages or network > packages. So, I installed all the recommended packages in the base and > net sections. > > Well, it still gives me the error. I will recompile, but that will be > the last resort (recompiling on a 166mhz, ehg, that'd take forever!... I > could probably do it overnight I sopose). Also another thing about > recompiling is I have a limited amount of space I'm working with (2gbs), > and I left out most of the software developement packages. > > > Anyone have simular experiences? Thanks for any help, > > Todd Mueller > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list