Sigh, problem after problem. Installed the various drivers, ignoring the Maxtor problem right now. Now the Ethernet controller is on and see the DHCP host and I get an address, but mysteriously, I can't access the Internet. Ugh.
This seems to be a problem with the builtin nVidia firewall. Incredibly, when you boot it, it seems at least for me to run in medium mode and then it rejects the home router I have. Thinks that things are spoofed there. They should be Pure Networks to autoconfigure the nvidia firewall, apparently, it needs to be told about the home network.
Symantec et al do autodiscovery, but apparently, this is not true with the built in nVidia one as far as I can tell
