Carl & Sue Thompson wrote:
The installer tried the slmodem driver which I had downloaded prior to the
install. It could not be tested yesterday at the installfest as internet
connection plug was busy. However it does not appear to work at home.
You are not in Christchurch anymore? A pity, as i *have* succeeded in getting the slmodem working with
SuSE. I've just given a copy of these disks to a friend (teacher, Pete Wilson) at Wakatipu high school.
Closest i can manage i'm afraid.
Interesting that you say Canon is crap - but most of my hardware is new and
I guess I did not purchase it with linux in mind. However I have it and I
Whoever told you that Canon is crap has an axe to grind. It's Canon's attitude towards linux that is crap,
not the hardware they produce. One day they'll come around.
My advice to you is to leave the space free, grab a copy of those SuSE disks, find someone who is sufficently
clued up to understand the guides http://www.tuxmobil.org and try again. You'll probably not get the
printer working, but you *can* print to a file on the windoze partition for later printing when booted into windoze.
Cheers, Rex
