On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:55, Carl & Sue Thompson wrote: Am going PCMCIA card > modem because I do not want the agony to trying to get winmodem to work. I > am a simple end user who doesn't like farting round with stuff I don't > comprehend - I just want the computer to do basic things like connect to > the net and don't want to have to spend time making things work. Bill > makes it work for windows and I always have that option - but since > everyone says linux is just wonderful I'm giving it a go. It would be nice > to have an address book though - and to connect. > > Cheers > > Carl
Getting a modem which will work certainly kick-started me on my Linux experience. IMHO it is not worth stuffing around with modems. I think that importing address books is best done by first exporting as a CSV (comma separated values) file and importing that. I think that the vCards can be imported/saved OK though (into Evolution) -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) www.fisher.net.nz BOFH Excuse #300: Digital Manipulator exceeding velocity parameters
