I have the Mepis PC connected to a Ethernet cable to a hub and to a Windows XP which is set up for Home Networking, but I haven't had any success in getting the Mepis to connect to my Broadband provider yet. Us newbies. I've managed to get the Ubuntu PC to do so though, which I'm coming to you on.
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 22:40 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:28, Lindsay wrote: > > Found something I think. > > Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01) > > Rather attempting to get that to go, which is possible but you have to be > fairly knowledgeable, how about you buy youself an external hardware modem? > Assuming that the machine in question is equipped with a serial port? > > > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:04 +1200, Keith McGavin wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 03, Lindsay wrote: > > > > Correct kppp & internal modem (56k) > > > > > > 'lspci -v' should give info on the 56k modem. > scanmodem from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz > > is a far superior tool because it tells exactly what kind of modem you have > and what to do. > > download it on the machine which you are e-mailling from and use a floppy or > whatever to move it to the other one. > > -- > > C. S. > > >
