Ethernet on Dell Dimension 3000 and the Floppy Drive
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To All:
I posted about a week or so ago that I had a problem with the connection
of an Intel Ethernet Card on a Dell Dimension 3000 using Trisquel 4.0
LTS.
The problem has been solved. Turned out to be the cable, not the
ethernet card or Trisquel operating system. Got a new cable and bingo
the ethernet works.
Now I've discovered that the floppy drive isn't able to read a floppy
disk when you try to mount the floppy drive through my computer.
The floppy disk are good and when you go into terminal and issue the
command fdformat /dev/fd0/ the floppy disk is formatted but the floppy
disk is still not capable of being read from the floppy drive in my
computer.
Anyone have this problem with a floppy drive using Trisquel?
Richard
I am a translator!
I'm glad the ethernet problem was just your cord.
Wow, floppies in 2011? Really? Is there any particular reason you needed to use one instead of a CD?
But apparently, floppy drive support was removed from Ubuntu since version 8.10. See this page for instructions on getting it to work: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/ubuntu-8-1-wont-use-the-floppy-disk-drive-681634/.
I haven't tried the above steps for myself, because my computer doesn't have a floppy drive.
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