Helped a neighbour set up his winmodem last night. Of course he has been putting off sorting the modem for so long that he now has Mandrake 9.2 - probably really needs a whole new distro! Still he is keen so thats good.
The sm56 rpm package for mandrake 9.x series worked very well. Its a bit weirdly packaged though, it installs a whole lot of files to /tmp, then the post-install script compiles the modem driver, installs the driver, fiddles with modules.conf and then all the stuff in /tmp disappears. It has no formal dependency on gcc, although if you don't have gcc installed the rpm install seems to go ok, but leaves a little error message on the screen. Therefore the rpm database thinks sm56 is installed but it hasn't really worked. weird. Also the rpm database thinks there are a whole lot of files installled in /tmp, but the setup script deleted them (or was it the reboot?) Ah well it worked I guess. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
