There may be someone on the list who has a spare 56k hardware modem for
sale.
Good luck!
Danny
I have one to give away if you do run out of options.
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Go buy a mac :o)
What kind of modem have you got? Is it a USB one or a Serial one?
Type "ls -l /dev/modem" and tell us what it says.
There's a SuSE diagnostic tool, it's call "siga" or something (it's in the
manual) if you could post the output of that on a website or something that
may help.
E
Hi Paul,
I notice you have had lots of sensible advice in the other replies to your
post, but there is one area that has not been covered adequately that may
continue to give you some problems.
I notice you have an "external modem", in my experience, these fall into two
categories.
1. Full ext
On 11 Jan 2005, at 16:13, babaguy wrote:
there is a quite a lovely initial wallpaper that comes up as standard
once the machine is booted. I experimented and stuck on another one,
then when I wanted to change back to the original, it had disappeared
from the available options.!
A quick googl
>>Problems: I can't get the machine to recognise
>>or link up to the external modem I
>>bought.so I can't get online.
But you said that was a USB modem. They are even more of a pain in the
arse than internal winmodems! Get an external modem that connects to a
serial port, or better yet,
I had the similar problems with SuSE 9.1 before Christmas and gave up with it!
9.2 installed first time and most things worked; admittedly I still can't get
online but the external modem was detected correctly using Yast and my problem
is to do with the settings for network and internet access.
I
Hi - good to hear that you're wanting to run Linux: welcome to the only true
and shining path!
Having said that...
I had problems running SuSE 9.1 too. I've been running Linux for years (back
to Red Hat 7.2) and without doubt, SuSE 9.1 was the biggest disappointment.
First thing I had to do w
Forgive the indentation everyone - difficult to try to work with the text as
displayed.
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