Hello folks. I've been running Mandrake for about a week now and have been loving it. I've finally managed to get most of everything working. What I would like to do is hook my Win95 laptop up to my Linux box through a null-modem cable if necessary. Does anyone know of a server program that could make this easier for me? I'll resort to the How-to's shortly, but they often confuse me even more. MPEG-3 Question... My box is a 266 MMX, and my SB 16 PnP card is hooked up and running fine so far. I can play WAV's just fine, CD Audio, Mixer, etc. With MP3's, though, it starts off playing white noise and then cuts off. I have to restart KDE to get WAV capability back as well. Anyone know what could be causing this? I've been using X11Amp. I thought my cpu may have been to slow at first, but people have told me they've used MP3's on much slower computers. Little helper... I had two major problems when first installing. My modem and Soundblaster are both PnP, and gave me a bit of headache. After trying many things, and messing up majorly, I finally found out what may be the easiest install. I reinstalled Mandrake (I messed up something so bad it would lock the box when I started Kpp), and the only config I had to do for my modem was "setserial /dev/modem irq 9". I figured out which interrupt my modem was on by booting up Win95 again. After that, it worked flawlessly, no other configuration necessary. (Well, connection is a little slow. Average 2.5 Kbps/s compared to 5-7 Kbps/s in win95) For the Soundblaster, the only thing I had to do was run sndconfig. For anyone with trouble with a SB16 PnP, just boot up Win95 if possible, and get the IRQ and DMA's. I suppose you could guess with them, as I was doing at first, but it's much easier just getting the information. Thanks for any help on the networking problem. Eric
