I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual booting with WinXP
The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from the linuxant site into the window$ partition
in my /etc/fstab there's already this line:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
and I can peek into the windoze partition from KDE
in terminal I copied the driver into a disposable directory, cd'd into the directory with it and did:
rpm -iv hsfverylongfilename.rpm
now in GUI...
in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as "unknown device."
in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc
now get this: I got a handshake, then an error message (The system doesn't seem to be connected to the internet. Try to reconfigure your connection). so I took the "@mindspring.com" off my login (what the hey, it's helped in netscape) and now I don't even get a handshake. And the same error message. Put the login back as it was and *still* get no handshake. Fooled around with the authentication because I have no idea if I need PAP/CHAP (the default) or script based or what, and when I have it set to CHAP I once again get a handshake ...and the error message.
Can anyone see where I'm screwing up?
thanks Julie --
why linux? because MS is to OS as AOL is to ISP.
"...also, you are using 'free software' now. It tends to suck as much as the stuff that is not free, just in different ways." -Carol S
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