On Mon, 16 May 2005 15:13:02 +1200 Deane Foreman wrote: > I may be looking at the resources tab for the modem in the wrong place > because all the information it gives me is the bit rate, which is zero. > There is a tab for Drivers, but it is disabled. > > You'll have to give me very basic instructions for the use of lsmod and the > modprobe line I'm afraid. Is this something I use through the command line > interface? I have set up a Terminal Sessions button on the taskbar (thanks > Roger) but there are two options that begin with "Root" (Root Shell and > Midnight Commander?? from memory - I'm in windoze typing this).
you want the root shell one and then you type commands in the"terminal" that appears onscreen and get responses back. type in lsmod and see what response you get (until you get your internet working on this computer it REALLY helps to have another one that can access the net so you can sned us an email without rebooting) > > Also, I don't understand what you mean by editor, or how to load a file into > one. > > I do hope windoze and the graphical user interface hasn't ruined me for real > computing.... probably, but it is not a permanent affliction. You can be cured. I was. > > Deane --
