Welcome to linux. This is what linux is all about (stress.)
You can use an easy reset technique that lets you start again. (NOTE: A very
bad idea would be to get another distro. I have tried eight gazilion
(actually 3) and sadly this is the easiest to use...
The easy reset technique is as follows:
1. Delete your current Linux mandrake system and reinstall linux
2. Complain to the computer who makes your modem and ask about linux
support. A likely response is "We don't support it." (followed by the
representative hanging up on you.)
3. Get a new modem that says all over the box things like "Supports linux"
and "Tested with linux" and even "Comes with linux."
4. Find out that the company dosn't provide technical suport for using the
modem with linux.
5. Go to Mandrakeexperts.com and type in your question (As soon as you press
submit the site goes down. I have tried this numeras times.)
6. Have a nervious breakdown
I have gone through all these steps myself except for with a USB ethernet
card. (The "linux supported"(false advertising)was a non-USB one where you
have to break your back and open the computer.
Hope this helps.
>From: donald hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [newbie] It's all LUCK, and mine was BAD
>Date: 18 Feb 2001 18:20:50 EST
>
>I put in a standard LM-7.2 setup from a 4 CD set.
>
>First it took two weeks to figure out what was wrong in fstab so I could
>mount
>the CDROM (and Mandrakesoft couldn't help), and finding a place to put
>mem=56K so the shared video ram would work.
>
>Still no one can tell me how to use a USB modem. The kernel supports it, my
>modem is listed as a supported modem (linux-usb org), LM-7.2 put in a huge
>amount of USB files and recognized two USB ports.
>
>I still get a Aieee kernel panic, swapper no syncing error if I boot in
>anything but graphical mode.
>
>Corel Photo loads but won't run because Fonttastic is missing. The MAndrake
>help page give directions to install it from the Install CD, but it is not
>on
>the Install CD.
>
>Corel WP-8 won't install, not from the Wbesite, not from two differenct
>CD's,
>one of them a Mandrake 6.5 CD.
>
>Windows may crash a lot, but at least it WORKS in between crashing. What
>good
>is Linux not crashing, if you can't get anything working?
>
>I'm new to Linux, but not to computers. I do tech support for modems. I can
>follow instructions, but when it says (man 8 mount) to look in
>/linux/fs/filesystems.c for a list of supported filesystems, when /linux/fs
>directory doesn't exist how can you do anything???
>When it tells you to load 'fonttastic.... rpms' from the Install CD and it
>doesn't exist what can you do???
>
>
> Don
>
>
>
>Don Hinds - photo, motorcycle, misc.
>
>http://www.wyzards.com
>
>
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