If that's the internal modem that Dell ships, it's a WinModem.
The DeskPorte Fast 100 combo card, for one, works well. Haven't tried
others.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| My Inspiron 7000 is currently dualbooting Win98SE and Mandrake 7.0.2 quite
| nicely. The only problem i am having is getting the Xircom Realport
| NIC/Modem working properly. NIC is fine but the modem is not cooperating.
| --Dave
|
| Brian T. Schellenberger typethed the following...
|
| >Just a quick note . . .
| >
| >The newer, higher-end Inspirons (7500) are among those on which Dell
| >*does* offer Linux shipped, and on which Linux works quite well.
| >(That's what I'm using right now, in fact.)
| >
| >On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| >| WH Bouterse wrote:
| >| >
| >| > My latest attempt to bring two converts into
| >| > the Linux fold has met with another delay.
| >| >
| >| > Dell Deminsion XPS T 500
| >| > Diamond Viper Tnt 16mg AGP
| >| > PCI probe "No" blank out and return to screen
| >| > Same with going ahead with "yes"
| >| > "error /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ card not found"
| >| > I thought this card got recognized by L-M 7.0 ?
| >| > Are the drivers elsewhere?
| >| >
| >|
| >| Ummm, when the brand is Dell, not necessarily. Turtle Beach
| >| Montego sound drivers on the Aureal website are stated to work
| >| for all TBM sound cards EXCEPT Dell. Dell has enough buying
| >| power to have OEM-only versions of cards made to their specs, and
| >| often these DO require Dell drivers, even in Windows.
| >|
| >|
| >| > "Sound Card Yamaha Corp:YMF-724F {DS-1 Audio Controller]
| >| > is not supported"
| >| > The sound card gets recognized, but then I get the above?
| >| > Subsequently sound doesnt work. Even with sndconfig.
| >|
| >| www.opensound.org supposedly has a driver that works (but, with
| >| Dell, who knows?) for about $30 DEFINITELY try before you buy.
| >| They will let you download a driver that provides 3 hours of
| >| sound before you must use the unlock code.
| >|
| >| >
| >| > It found the Printer fine. An HP 600c
| >| >
| >| > This is a clean install on a new 20gig as /dev/hdb etc.
| >| > With NT on /dev/hda
| >| >
| >| > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
| >| >
| >| > Thanks
| >| >
| >| > William Bouterse
| >| > Alaska
| >|
| >| Dell offers linux on SOME of its machines. I have worked on some
| >| Inspirons and others not offered natively in linux by the
| >| manufacturer and my success rate is lower than it is with the
| >| rather proprietary Gateways and Compaqs. Again, this seems to be
| >| because Dell uses cards which are driven only by its own drivers
| >| even though they may appear to be similar to retail offerings.
| >|
| >| Civileme
| >|
| >| While Dell will most likely tell you they don't support linux on
| >| that model, usually the tech can save you hours of fruitless
| >| labor and searching by letting you know how proprietary the card
| >| is--in other words, call them and ask about drivers (in Windows)
| >| for the cards in question. If he refers you to a public website,
| >| it is likely that you can succeed. If not, best abandon the
| >| effort.
| >|
| >|
| >| --
| >| Remember that if it is done on networks, it may occur on
| >| your host which is a network unto itself.
| >--
| >"Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
| >Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents.
| >Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
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