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Hello everyone
Let me first apologise because I am probably going
to ask some really dumb questions but I guess they need to be asked. I have a
book about it and have looked over many web pages, but I thought someone out
there may be able to help me hand in hand as it were!
Right so I have installed mandrake 7.1 as a dual
boot. It all seems to work so far, and it recognises my CD-ROM. Now I am trying
to see if it will recognise soundcard (I doubt it) my winModem (I am sure it
won't) and finally get my printer to work!
I have a HP 640C printer, originally on a USB
connection, but since it is not supported it is now on a parallel port. I have
no idea how to get it to work. I tried the root graphical method, but no joy.
All it says in my Linux book is how to get a remote postscript printer I am not
sure how it relates.
As for my sound card, well I have a ATI
All-in-Wonder Pro 128, I think this attempts to do everything bar walk the dog
in windows, but I am not sure if it is any use in Linux, advice
anyone?
Finally I know a couple of WinModems can work under
Linux but it is about 1 in a billion, I have a US Robotics 56K Win NT modem. I
know they were one of the big Windows only modems, but before I go out and get
an external modem I thought I would check.
Any help is most appreciated, and any tips for a
new newbie would be great.
Oh finally, I have 128 MB of RAM in my computer but
it recognises only 64 in Linux, I tried adding mem=128m to my Linux.conf file
but it seems to have done nothing...
Right that's it for my first message! Thanks alot
Dion
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