Greets List, Thanks David for the FC2 disks, which I have care of for Installfest.
Preliminary impressions - great! This is the first time I've had a modem working in Linux on my laptop. I used an old 28K Cardbus/PCMCIA that may have been flashed to 56K - it works very well. Setup was simple, having spotted the (unusual) ttyS6 initialised during boot. KDE is better on this laptop (& others?), because power/battery sensing works by default, preventing crashes. This is an issue because of the poor hold the transformer lead has in the back of the box - a common design 'fault' I imagine, that renders one somewhat immovable while on AC. If ACPI?/it's in GNOME, I'll hunt it out, as it's hard to break the habits of a lifetime ;-) I'll try using this modem in SuSE, Mdk et al, & see how easy it is there too. I see it as part of the #1 issue we need to resolve for newbies to leave Installfest happy & ready - or else we'll wind up wasting our next workshop on it (22 July), when we could be moving people through update technologies instead. Key pointer of the day: "A kernel update from Fedora" http://lwn.net/Articles/91967/ 2ndry tip: Evolution's spell-checking is a real boon :-) Fedora is back in the running against SuSE, as far as I'm concerned.. Cheers Rik -- GNU/Linux User ~ FedoraCore2 i686, kernel 2.6.5-1.358, GNOME 2.6 desktop Evolution 1.4.6 email, Mozilla 1.6 browser, OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 suite ~
