On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 20:07, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi, > > I'm an almost newbie: I managed to get Mandrake installed and that's > about it. I did post here a while back [I think about six months ago,] > and I received some really helpful advice to get Mandrake and WIN2KPRO > on the same HDD but past that I found it all a bit hard and I really don't > have time to stuff around much just to make things work; I need to just get > things done. So I haven't used Linux for anything much in all that time. > > But last night I got a bunch of weird stuff install itself on my machine > like some damn get-rich-quick crap and that plus the usual endless virus > updates and email worms and so on - - I finally want to switch over to > Linux to access the net - I'm told it's safer:) > > But the surprise is: Linux doesn't think there's a Modem in my machine! > > When I click on "connect to the internet" [from the "what to do" menu] > it either hangs on the "initialising modem" stage, or sometimes it > says "sorry, the modem doesn't respond". [at least it's polite :) ] > > I looked in the Mandrake Control Center and the modem is not listed at all. > > I know there's a modem in there - WIN2K sees it fine - but past knowing it's > a PCI card I don't know any more about it. I looked in the "documentation" > on the desktop, but it seems to only tell about KDE itself - not about > the system or it's parts. I *think* Mandrake was supposed to install a > bunch of HOWTOs and such, but I don't know where to find them. > > Could you please tell me where to look, to find out the first steps > in making Mandrake acknowledge there's a modem there, and then how to make > it connect? > > Thank you very much in advance for your help... > in your case, I would suggest that you (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) "cat /proc/pci" and if you can highlight the text, and copy it to an email and post it here. we can look at that info and tell if your modem is a win modem (which will require a good bit more of your time to get running) or a hardware modem, which can be configured within 10 mins.
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