Needless to say I felt a bit ripped off by this. What happened to the good old days when peripherals took near on a week to get working properly?
However, I was pleased to see that the winmodem and onboard sound were not working. I didn't expect the winmodem to go anyway but the onboard sound surprised me. There were two issues with the sound. There are no "event sounds". A CD player in KDE recognises and starts to play it an inserted CD but also no sound (yes it works under windaz). I tried to open the mixer but I got an error message that suggested the permissions of /dev/mixer may not allow the mixer to run. "chmod 777 /dev/mixer" makes no difference to this error.
"lspci -vv" reveals a Multimedia Audio Controller: Intel Corp, 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 01). The graphical audio device detects something similar but I can't remember whether it was identical. Do I try a kernel compile or will I have to search out a special driver? I don't mind either method. After I post this I'm going to do a Google for some help.
As for the modem, I'm currently downloading all of http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/dists/redhat/ to file away for future use.
The last winmodem I installed (about 2 months ago) was a connexant chipset. The connexant website was outstandingly helpful and the driver rpm they provided worked perfectly. Kudos to them. Brickbat to those twats at lucent, now known as "Agere".
Cheers, Michael.
