Hey all! I still can't get linux to compile my tulip.c drivers. I can't login as root either! I have mandrake setup to boot into my user level account by default. When I log off and try to log on as root, it takes my password, shows the blue background, and stops. it was like this from the day I installed it! I can go in under failsafe, But seeing I don't know the commands, I am kinda over a stump there.. Once I get this taken care of, I would like to install wine (?) that came with mandrake 7.2 (? did it?) I can't seem to get linux running! I like it, and would replace windows with linux, But the only problem is that I need windows to connect to the wonderful world of WWW... hahaha..

Whell, Thankyou all!
Jude

can you su to root ?? or have you tried it... to have root access ?

ahh.. So thats how you change users!! I will try that and get rite back to you on that!

Thankyou!
Jude

yep.. su stands for "substitute user" or some would say or call it super user.. but they are wrong...

yep.. I tried the tulip driver that came with my distro, just installing pci-scan and it appeared to work.. When I went to fire up netscrape, it wouldn't launch, and now the system hangs at the grey screen when starting X windows.. ahh! Just when I got everything niced up too!

Whell, thanx!
Jude