On Mon, May 14, 2007 4:34 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: >> >>> Ok, so who has the latest Mepis or $Xdistro for checking fish out >> >>> please? >> >>> Something good with an ltmodem (Agere) preferred. >> >> This is the main problem to solve, for a newbie home user.. > > I have an IBM ThinkPad 600x, which has an ltmodem built in. It currently > has Windows NT on it, and I plan to install Mepis 6.5 soon[1]. I will > report my findings back here. > > Andrew > > [1] I am careful not to specify which timescale I am using (internet, > human, NZ, glacial, geological)
ltmodems have a good history of working on linux. However nasty things sometimes happen to these community developed drivers - a combination of fast moving kernel ABI's, changes in gcc, etc. So what worked > > -- Nick Rout
