On Feb 15, 2005, at 6:07 AM, Bryan Phinney wrote:
Never hurts to learn something. Well mostly, anyway. <g>
The only reason that I suggest external serial is that in a lot of cases, you
have to install a lot of developer tools to get a winmodem working and even
then, it is simply not as fast or good as an external serial.
First of all, a belated thank you to Bryan and the others who have weighed in on my modem problem. I am beginning to see the wisdom of your advisement to buy an external serial modem. If the conversion of a "winmodem" to a "linmodem" was a pain for you, it may be nigh impossible for me.<g> Upon downloading the (free) driver for my particular SW modem and reading the prerequisites for installation, I've discovered that I do not know what "kernel source headers" are. My guess is that anybody who knows anything knows what these are and where to find them in the Mandrake 10.1 CDs, and that perhaps a person who is as ignorant as I has no business trying to do this installation. Nevertheless, if one of you out there could help me find the "kernel source headers", I would be most grateful.
Throw in the cost of the external serial models and you might want to get one
despite getting the winmodem to work, which is what I did.
...and is probably what I will end up doing as well, but I would really like to try to make this modem work, just so I can say that I did it...<g>
Thanks again, Melissa Allen
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