I found my soloution

Mandrake 9.0 with a soundblaster live will give me what I want.


Thanks guys

and that solved the nic problem?

No. I have decided I hate all onboard nics.

hehe

It does work with my linksys though.

sweet... glad to hear you're up and running... even if you had to compromise to do it. sorry for the difficult install.

best of luck,
barto

I went back to 9.0, loaded the nvaudio module and im off!

I love linux, now I can get down to the good stuff.


Thanks guys for your help.



Taz,

Donald Walser

its a shame you had to run into such problems you're first time with linux... however the next time you run into a similiar problem you'll be ahead of the game.

now if winex would just work like its supposed to...

Now wine is a windows emulator isnt it?

Wine Is Not an Emulator=WINE

"Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.

Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris."

http://www.winehq.com

whether it is or it isn't... it does the job of one.

so in a word...


yes

(for games though I'd check out winex at transgaming.com it supports (at least partially) directx as well as winblows)