I have an IBM
Thinkpad T42. For years I've worked with Windows and recenty have
wanted to try Linux. I've tried many distros and none of them will
properly load and recognize the wireless card in this laptop. When I
read thatFreespire had solved this problem with their latest distro I
could hardly wait to burn an iso and load it up. Wouldn't you know, the
wireless worked first try. I was amazed. I thought I was on my way to
conversion. Then it happened. CNR will not work as it should. I've done
everything that everyone else here has tried. I thought I could benefit
from those ahead of me with the same problems. Well, it looks like we
all still have the same problem. I have the latest version of Freespire
and the latest download and upgrade of CNR. However, it will not
initialize and download and install anything. In snooping around I see
several files in the temp directory. I assume that something may be
downloading there. When I start the browser and go to Preferences to
change the assosiation for CNR, CNR is no where to be found. I've
loaded and reloaded Freespire several times and have the same problems
each time.

Obviously either I'm doing something wrong or there is a bug. I am
new to linux and Freespire but not computers. I've been working with
them very closely since about 1984. So this is very frustrating to me.
I have enjoyed working with linux and particularly Freespire, but I
can't continue to punish myself day in and day out. I'd like nothing
more than to leave MS behind and venture into new things, but.....

I do a lot of desktop publishing and need to install Scribus to start with. Any help would be most appreciated.

Hsmith