-- In [email protected], Robert C Wittig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ian Betts wrote:
> > OK folks, thanks for replying. Have patience with this old idiot
please.
> >
> > I use a Sagum Fast 800 modem through USB for internet connection.
> >
> > I have learnt Linux prefer network connectors. Am I right in that
because
> > this modem does not have one.
> >
>
> First... make sure you spell things correctly... it is Sagem.
>
> If Google had not suggested the correct spelling, I would have been
> unable to locate the manufacturers website:
>
> http://www.sagem.com/index.php?id=182&L=0
>
> Remember... Google is your friend.
>
> By adding the word 'linux' to the correctly spelled name of the
modem,
> and running that through Google, I was able to find a page titled:
>
> 'SAGEM Fast 800 Success story' ...which is at:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=202072
>
> I did not take time to read the article, but the title suggest that
you
> might find it useful... in spite of the very first sentence in the
> article stating:
>
> "Browsing this forum I've read a number of horror stories regarding
this
> dreaded piece of hardware, namely the "Sagem Fast 800" USB ADSL.
I'm
> frankly surprised of Reading about so many trouble and since I have
it
> working both on Red Hat 9 and Slack-ware 9.1 (my ISP is Telecom
Italia),
> I've decided to put some order on the issue."
>
> > Having first installed Ubuntu 5.10 and then 6.06 on my slave
drive when I
> > boot I see a list that contains the 6.06 list, my XP and the 5.10
list. How
> > can I remove the 5.10 entry?
> >
>
> By editing whichever config file your bootloader (LILO, Grub,
whatever)
> is using. Read the man page for the bootloader.
>
> > I will try hard not to use Window word here?
> >
>
> This should not be an issue, because the bootloader is on a *nix
> partition, and therefore, inaccessible to Windows, but yes, when
editing
> config files, use a text editor, like vi, because you do not want
to
> leave text formatting characters (produced by office-type apps, to
give
> you nice fonts, etc.) in a config file.
>
> If this is your Windows bootloader you are referring to, that you
want
> to modify, that too can be done by editing a text file, from insode
> Windows, using notepad.exe.
>
> Personally, being extremely lazy, I do not usually bother to erase
> unneeded entries in boot loaders... I just remember that they don't
go
> anywhere, and so I don't bother using them.
>
>
Well I will ignore your comment on my typo. If you do not recognise a
well known trade name you will I guess have to rely on a well know
search engine. I use Copernic myself.
Is not the bootloader on my master drive and Grub also? I know how to
modify the XP boot loader but not the Linux one which is much more
Terminal intensive I think.
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