On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 20:31, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Darryl, > Don't know much about PCI ADSL cards but you are running an old > distribution. > > IIRC Redhat 9 is probably getting to be about a year old. > (and for software that's ooold) > > Seeing as though you seem to be pretty early in your installation cycle > it might pay to get a hold of a copy of Mandrake 10 Official. It's a > good newbie distro. > > Don't know where Paul's internet cafe has moved to now > (Paul where are you now?) but he flogs Linux disks @ $5 /disk.
He is starting up again soon, still in the arts centre. beyond that I am not sure I am at liberty to say. tried to persuade him to lend me his aerial and so on until he is back up and running...you can see Clarendon Tower from my office. > > > > Darryl Te Whata wrote: > > I don't know if am doing this right, new to mailing lists as well. > > > > I am a newbie to Linux and have installed RH9 to a 4GB slave drive on my > > WinXp comp. (Athlon 2000xp, 512sd ram 40 + 4 GB Hdd) > > > > Having dabbled previously, I always dropped the install because of lack of > > Internet access (too hard basket). > > > > I am now trying to give it a real go but am having trouble configuring the > > hardware as RH9 does not support this card out of the box. > > > > I have located and installed 4 rpms from > > http://www.data-technics.net/content.php?cat=7 > > <http://www.data-technics.net/content.php?cat=7> , > > > > 1. accessrunner-2.4.20-8.rh9.0.i386.rpm > > 2. initscripts-7.14-2.cnx.i386.rpm > > 3. linux-atm-2.4.1.cc-2.0.i386.rpm > > 4. ppp-2.4.2b3-rh9.0.i386.rpm > > > > which have resulted in the boot sequence locating the card and initializing > > an adsl connection but when I log onto RH there is still no card to find in > > the hardware browser. > > > > I have a couple of areas of concern, I would like to check the configuration > > within the RPM's to ensure they are what I need, and I need an idiots guide > > on the configuration steps when everything boots. I have been looking but > > the level of help on the net is a little above me. > > > > Thanx > > > > Darryl Te Whata > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
