"petzhouse private" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
You are right, Compaq doesn't support Linux, except the iPaq palm-sized
computer. Talk about backwards thinking...
I could use a serial modem (I have them), but my serial port is for the Palm
(one serial, 2 USB). So I want to use the USB modem like I do in Windows. All
the files are there, but I can't find WHAT FILE to tell LM Linux that the
modem is on the USB port and not on the serial port.
Don
Don Hinds - photo, motorcycle, misc.
http://www.wyzards.com
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