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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
