On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:11, Alan wrote: > Been reading the emails with interest even tho much is way above me head > yet. > I have downloaded two modem files....not yet tried to do anything with > them tho, > they are ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386_8.31a11_i386.deb > also ltmodem-2.6-alk-8tar.bz2 > not sure which is likely to be the later one. The latter.
> I have now also downloaded Wvdial-1.56.tar.gz (which I believe is the > latest) and as suggested > on the sire I downloaded Wvstreams-4.22.tar.gz (I am assuming that this > is used in > conjunction with the building and installing of Wvdial. I'm not going to try to install wvdial until I feel I have exhausted my efforts to get you connected via kppp > I also c alled into the Library this afternoon and picked up a couple of > books > one being Linux in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath, however as I start to > read it appears to be about Suse and I dont know if it is likely to be > applicable with Mepis. > The other is Linux Quick Fix Notebook by Peter Harrison.... not sure if > there is a lot that will help my knowledge in that as initially looking > i think it may deal mostly with server type installations. > > If any one knows them and would care to comment on their value to my > understanding I would appreciate it thanks. imho, it's not a very good investment to buy paper books because not only are they horrendously expensive, but the information about specific distributions therein is usually out of date before they hit the printing press, let alone the market. -- CS
