...Or not.
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urbandruid...Well, this is sucking.
I think my !@#$ing network card is too old, because it's giving me weird errors. I called the ISP once, and they told me to take off the splitter filter I had on the modem line, because it doesn't need it. Told me that should solve my problem. Naturally, it didn't.
By that time I was too tired and fed up to call them back, because I pretty much know what they're going to tell me, and I figured I'd totally lose it if I had to hear it.
So I went and watched the deleted scenes on Order of the Phoenix, and then randomly decided I'd watch "The Gathering" from Babylon 5.
...Londo's hair was really scary back then. I'd forgotten that, somehow.
Anyway. Mom's off in an hour, and I was really hoping I'd have this set up and all figured out by now.
I think I do have it figured out, and it's not good.
I can't find any specs on my wireless card, other than what the wireless network thingy under network connections says- "ORiNOCO mini PCI card." The driver's from 2001, and something tells me that's not good enough. So, yeah, the saga of my tech kind of sucking continues.
Argh!
Either the ISP guys didn't ask the right questions when we signed up, or we didn't ask the right questions. Whatever, I guess one of us needs to call them back and find out just how screwed we are. I figure I've been dealing with this all day, maybe I'll make Mom do it.
If we can't get this figured out I'm just going back to my crappy dialup in my room. Right now I have all my stuff in her room, on this kind of rickety old secretary desk thing, I can hardly see the screen from where I am, and in general the setup bites. Oh yeah and I'm on the main phone line- which, you know, wouldn't matter if I could get the effing DSL to work...
*headdesk*
I think my !@#$ing network card is too old, because it's giving me weird errors. I called the ISP once, and they told me to take off the splitter filter I had on the modem line, because it doesn't need it. Told me that should solve my problem. Naturally, it didn't.
By that time I was too tired and fed up to call them back, because I pretty much know what they're going to tell me, and I figured I'd totally lose it if I had to hear it.
So I went and watched the deleted scenes on Order of the Phoenix, and then randomly decided I'd watch "The Gathering" from Babylon 5.
...Londo's hair was really scary back then. I'd forgotten that, somehow.
Anyway. Mom's off in an hour, and I was really hoping I'd have this set up and all figured out by now.
I think I do have it figured out, and it's not good.
I can't find any specs on my wireless card, other than what the wireless network thingy under network connections says- "ORiNOCO mini PCI card." The driver's from 2001, and something tells me that's not good enough. So, yeah, the saga of my tech kind of sucking continues.
Argh!
Either the ISP guys didn't ask the right questions when we signed up, or we didn't ask the right questions. Whatever, I guess one of us needs to call them back and find out just how screwed we are. I figure I've been dealing with this all day, maybe I'll make Mom do it.
If we can't get this figured out I'm just going back to my crappy dialup in my room. Right now I have all my stuff in her room, on this kind of rickety old secretary desk thing, I can hardly see the screen from where I am, and in general the setup bites. Oh yeah and I'm on the main phone line- which, you know, wouldn't matter if I could get the effing DSL to work...
*headdesk*
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:03 am (UTC)Anyway, out of curiosity, I did some Google-surfing. Found out the Orinoco line has gone through three different owners over the years, and their latest manufacturer, Proxima didn't seem to have much to offer on their site.
But I did find this page, over on Opendrivers.com, which offers a driver upgrade for the "Orinoco Classic" model, whatever that means. Hope this is helpful, or that it at least gets you pointed in the right direction.
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Date: 2007-12-20 05:11 am (UTC)Turns out our DSL modem is defective, in addition to whatever may or may not be up with my network card. So I figure we'll get that swapped out, 'cause that sure as hell can't be helping. :)
How're you doing, btw?