"It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-}>" *Tom Brinkman On Wednesday 22 August 2001 19:20, Tim Holmes wrote: > Well the only response to the message you sent was the best on. The > reason why I didn't respond to your post. > > The solutions that would cause the least amount of headaches would be to > buy a REAL modem. Even if you did get the WinModem working, you'd be > sending posts asking why it disconnects like it does. All because > poorly written beta drivers for something never intended to run under a > real operating system. > > But, just to humor you, since you seem to feel neglected at the lists > "failure" to help you, I'll offer some help for your problem. > > You may need a newer and/or recompiled kernel to accept the module for > your "modem." Not knowing which version of Mandrake, or what kernel > you're using, I couldn't speculate as to what is needed. > > When you found that your modem actually has a driver for Linux, still > doesn't mean it will work for your machine, with your kernel, or even > with Mandrake. > > Mandrake is becoming more and more popular, and more mainstreamed (As > much as Linux can be at this point in time.) but those drivers were > written and compiled for RedHat 6.2 or RedHat 7.0. Maybe even Debian, > so you may even need to compile the driver yourself in hopes of getting > it to work under your Mandrake machine. But let's not get into the > state of mind where people think if there's a driver, especially beta, > then it's supported under Linux. > > And this is a Users List. Just because you post an question, doesn't > mean it's going to be responded to. If you don't get a response, try > posting it to the EXPERT list. Or try going to MandrakeCampus.com, or > going through more doc pages. I've posted quite a few questions to the > board that nobody replies to. Either they don't read it, or they have > no clue on how to help. Keep that in mind as well as take some > recommendations with a grain of salt. What worked for them, may not > work for you. > > As well as any sort of formated text is the first kind of email to get > deleted. For those of us that use console based mailers like pine, elm, > or mutt, HTML emails aren't worth the ~/.mailcap entry. > tdh ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-}> *Tom Brinkman
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