Bill Bennett wrote:
> Right. Well, quite a lot of this Linux installation is going
> to be given the heavus. Are the same problems to be encountered?
So long as you uninstall stuff using the rpm -e command you shouldn't
have any problems.
> which has a built in modem. I'd like to contact work at night,
> but I've been told that it will not be via the on-board modem,
> because this was dedicated to the dreaded Microsoft products and
> any attempt to use it will result in galloping leprosy.
>
> To my discredit, I'm inclined to think this not to be so.
No, to your credit: IBM have actually released a GPLed driver for this
modem
<http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/>.
I've heard a couple of reports on the linmodems.org mailing list of
people successfully using this driver, so it should work for you. You're
probably better off ignoring the RPM's of the driver and getting the
source tar ball, currently at
<http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/mwavem-20010206n.tar.gz>.
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