gee i don't know why you expectthe PC to have such a bit of prep if the OS was not pre-installed. just go into BIOS and disable com 2. what does (as Root, in a text consol, without the quotes) "cat /proc/interrupts" say?
On Thursday 06 December 2001 02:50, you wrote: > I have recently purchased a new machine and have had to take it back to > the store as the modem is giving me hassles. The machine is an AMD > Thunderbird 1Ghz with what I believe, or have been told is, a Creative > modem 56kb/s in it. > > I have paid for the machine but feel that as they knew it was going to > only have Linux (Mdk 8) on it that they should have made sure the > hardware supplied i.e. the modem worked under Linux without having to > disable Com 2. > > Can anyone confirm/deny that the conflict is there? Surely a brand new > machine needn't have part of its hardware, Com 2, disabled for it to > work with a modem? Is the make of the modem the problem i.e. is it a > winmodem or semi winmodem? > > Comments please as I am due to pick up the machine tomorrow or perhaps > later today. > > TIA
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