Done and working. Thanks very much for your assistance. I, Found out my kernel version Went to http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ via Windows 2000 dial up internet connection Downloaded the appropriate rpm file to my c:\ directory aka /mnt/windows Rebooted to Linux su cd /mnt/windows cpm -i extremelylongfilenameforkernelversion.rpm drakconnect Told it my modem was at /dev/modem in the config panel Worked first go. Now browsing and emailing. I love the status window and graph of the connection window. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 7:51 PM To: 'James Gregory' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.0 Newbie Ron installs in under 1.5 hours !! Many thanx. I am on the trail as of now. I am a little short of play time at present so don't know how far I will get with it tonight but I have everything crossed. -----Original Message----- From: James Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 10:10 AM To: Ron Daniel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.0 Newbie Ron installs in under 1.5 hours !! On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:12:38AM +1000, Ron Daniel wrote: > Got my CD's. Tuesday lunchtime > Got my Win2k Laptop last Friday > Chucked the CD #1 in the drive, 1945hrs Tuesday night > Followed the bouncing ball > Resized my partitions on the fly > Worked beautifully !!! Up and running 2105 hrs > Now running dual boot, with KDE or GNOME or any other windows manager of > my choice, and loving it. Excellent! > Can anyone or everyone help me please. Ok, I'm running Mandrake Cooker on a Comapq Evo N160. I don't know if it has the same modem. Anyway, I got my modem to work by installing the conexant drivers. The way to find out if you have the same modem as me is to open an xterm, su to root and rung lspcidrake. If you see a line like this: unknown : Conexant|HSF 56k HSFi Modem then you're running the same modem. I don't have the URL I used to get the drivers on me, but The RPM I have installed informs me that the homepage for it is: http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ ahh, and off that is a link to the conexant page: http://www.conexant.com/customer/md_support.html Do you have ethernet or something else you can zap files to it with? Might be easiest to download it in windows and copy the files from your windows partition for installation. Once your modem is working there's a cute little app called "drakconnect" to get your connection up. I don't know if it will work with the n160 (and presumably n800) modem, because the modem installs to an odd place. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
