|| August Abolins -> Alan Zisman wrote:
||| ...One day I forgot that I had removed the
||| live-cd from the tray.. and
||| the system proceeded to boot to WinME.
||| ...It also failed
||| to cooperate with my newly configured router-based network..it
||| disabled access to the router with a message something like "A
||| conflict is detected with 192.168.0.1 and MAC address..." and
||| proceeded to simply disable the interface!  WinME is junk.  I'm not
||| going back there.
||
|| Not surprising that (2000-released) ME lacked drivers for a new video
|| card. The 'conflict detected' disabling is common to all Windows
|| versions when an IP address conflict is found. I'm not a big ME
|| fan-- ..


But a conflict with 192.168.0.1 makes no sense.  That's the external router.
The WinME network card would (or should) be assigned something else.   I had
disabled ICS and rebooted.  Still the same error cropped up.  Looks like if
I want to access the my network storage on the XP or its external hdd, I'll
have to go back to peer-to-peer wiring and enable ICS. That will be fine.
But I'd hate to remove the NEW video card (which ME renders in 16-colours)
and put the old one back in for this temprary file transfer.

WinMe = bleah!

I'm going to use Ubuntu live-cd mode and let samba detect the network drives
and sort out the transfer requirements.

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