Hi Mike
> Hey James,
> From your response, it appears you have more than one Serial port.
That's right, I have two ports. Since I have win95 as the other system on
this PC, and the usual mouse port seems to be tied into USB bus, win95 won
recognise it there forcing me to commondere port 1 for the mouse leaving
port 2 for the palm pilot or modem or whatever gets connected to it. Under
windoze I opted for a pci modem to keep it free for the palm pilot. For the
moment I have yet to check if Linux will regognise a mouse on the ps2 port
which is tied to the usb bus from what I gather here. I have found an
unsupported driver for the modem and have yet to test it, but another
possibility I'm now looking at is to get another card to add 1 or more
serial ports to accept another modem I can use under both OS's.
>Can you
> spare one for an external? If not, there are SOME PCI internals that are
NOT
> winmodems. Check one of the hardware sights from the Mandrake homepage.
I
> believe that Actiontec makes a true hardware PCI, but someone else on the
list
> please correct me if I err.
> HTH,
> Mike
>
Thanx, will do that as well. Never heard of Actiocec over here in Australia
though. May do a little checking into linux compatability b4 adding to this
system now.
Thanx again
James
