On Mon, May 14, 2007 4:53 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > > 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
oops didn't finish, meant to say: So, what worked on kernel 2.6.x may no longer work on kernel 2.6.x+n -- Nick Rout
