On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:57:54PM +1000, Johngibbons wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who sent me some help. I finally got Xandros re-installed 
> by using the floppy and CD plus jiggling the delete key. How it works, I have 
> no idea but thanks to Patrick who suggested the combination of magic passes.
> Still no sign of any BIOS.
Heh, it's not supposed to work quite that way, but here's to it.  :-)

> I now have the problem of getting Xandros to recognise my modem. It appears 
> the laptop has two. Unfortunately both are Winmodems which I understand are 
> often problems in themselves. They are shown as follows:
> 
> (1)  Agere Systems
>       pci:  0x11C1, 0x441, 0x38.  (Whatever all that means? Should I have            
>    
> typed a capital O and not a zero?)
> 
> (2) Toshiba|FIR Port
>       driver: donauboe
>       Manu: Toshiba American Info Systems.

That second one looks like an infrared port or something.

You'll need to post some more info I think.  You could try
 lspci -v > pci-list.txt
and then attach pci-list.txt, so we can have a good look, determine
compatibility etc. (via google)

Lots of winmodems are useful in linux these days, but if it turns out
yours isn't, then you'll need a PCMCIA or external modem, or better yet
an ethernet card and an ADSL connection.  ;-)

Patrick
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