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On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:50 pm, RAT wrote:
Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :)
1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I
search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out
that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at
http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it
doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem
which works?
2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched
forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but
it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions?
Thx Radek
I have an Acer 1355LC laptop, win modem of course and haven't yet
been able to compile the driver because it is running Mandrake 9.2
and this has no kernel source. Which I need to compile the driver and
I am on dialup, which is much like two tin cans with a string in the
middle connecting them. But worse, there is no serial port that will
allow connection of a hardware modem. So I have to keep it as dual
boot. Windows wins again for a while in this instance. I refuse to
pay for a driver when I have already paid for the modem with the
laptop, and the driver comes supplied for windows.
I have also not been able to get the sound to work. Have found a
terrific howto for this laptop, but it needs a compiled kernel to
work.
You may want to check to make sure what you need isn't already compiled
as a module with the stock kernel.
The touchpad works a treat without any alterations, but I think that
that you can download a driver from the synaptics site I did this
just in case but didn't need it. Google for it as I have kept no
record of it.
But possibly, you will also have to compile a kernel to get both the
modem driver and the touchpad driver to work. I actually think this
is a prerequisite for Linux.
NO, compiling your own kernel is not a prerequisite for Linux. While I
have done it before to fine-tune a kernel for a specific machine, it is
seldom necessary. About the only thing I have to compile for is the
PCMCIA SCSI card, because it is not susported in the 2.4.x kernels.
Good luck with it, just like the rest of us, don't give up. Keep
wearing away at it.
If you realy want to compile your own, you will probably want to get the
source for the latest kernel. On a dialup, you may want to get
Netscape's download manager, or wget for windows. Both will let you
resume abouted downloads. For wget, take a look at:
http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
Mikkel
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