I have just come to the conclusion that the hawkins usb modem is a total piece of shit. Don't worry I won't use that word again. In windows xp, it works then doesn't work. When it doesn't it dials out, handshakes, clicks and sounds dead. Checking the task mgr. shows the system is locked at 100%, until I disconnect. The software which installed and run beautiful last night quit and I uninstalled it. When I tried to reinstall, it won't work. I am computer literate and did manage a small BBS, before the net came along, on two floppies and later with a hard drive, so I am more than a newbie to computers in general. This thing has just got me beat. I am going to take it back ASAP and get an external serial port modem.
On 12 Nov 2005 at 14:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > jim allAn wrote: > > I forgot to ask about installation of the software. I am > > terribly > > new to linux and stuck with the older 8.2 version. > > > Ouch. That is about like running Windows 95. I never ran that version > of Mandrake - 9.2 was the first version of Mandrake I ran. You should > really try to get a newer version, as you will not even find security > updates for that one. You will also run into problems with a lot of > the newer hardware not being supported. I don't think that USB support > was all that good in 8.2, but I could be wrong. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > >
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