----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 03:32 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:43, Kent West wrote: > > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough to get PPP > > >working. > > I wouldn't worry about the stability of "unstable" - I am a complete newcomer > to Debian and my mosty-unstable system is far more stable than any windoze I > ever ran. > > > > > Chances are you have a so-called "soft-modem" (aka "winmodem"). You > > _might_ get it working, but it'd be a whole lote easier to just put a > > real modem on one of your serial ports. > > I second that. At home, I have adsl, but when abroad I have to use ppp, and I > cannot get the linmodem in my secondhand IBM thinkpad to work (there are > drivers around, but not compiled for my kernel). So I picked up a secondhand > Diamond memory faxmodem for 20 euros, plugged it in and it Just Worked. > People seem to be getting rid of the old reliable serial modems and buying > fancy rounded miniature USB boxes instead, so they don't cost too much. > > -- > richard > What is a winmodem? My modem is an Intel536EP PCI 56K V92. It works fine and while I dont use the V92 to its limits it is there if I should want to make use of the options. Regards; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
