Bring it over here Nate....we'll get you going.
Call me at 345-5172 to make arrangements.
jk
At 10:49 PM 9/10/2000, you wrote:
>ok, here it goes. I brought my computer into one of
>the thursday meetings about a month ago with windows
>going crazy and decided to whipe everything and
>install linux on it so you guys installed Mandrake 7.1
>on it without a probem but since i had a winmodem in
>it i went out and bought a new hardware modem asap,
>(you will proably remember this one) its a " PCI U.S.
>Robotics 56k Performance Pro Modem" Model No. 3CP5610A
>. On the box it says "Works with DOS, Linux and
>Windows" The modem came with a couple of documents for
>installing on the diffirent OS's the linux one says
>this ""Verify The Modem's installation Under Linux 2.3
>and Higher" "NOTE: All 2.3 and higher Linux kernels
>contain the 3Com Linux Modem drivers. Installation of
>the modem under this kernel is fully automatic
>provided your kernel has the plug and play module
>enabled (default). After the operating system has
>recognized the modem, verify the installation using
>the steps below." Then the paper goes on to tell you
>how to verify the modems installation under linux...
>which is a bunch of stuff i dont understand since i'm
>a linux newbie. Well to make a long story short you
>guys toyed with it all night and decided i needed to
>update my kernel so i downloaded it and stared doing
>what you guys told me to do, we were almost done when
>i needed to leave so i never got to fix it all the way
>well basically i was wondering what distros have the
>2.3 kernel or higher and if i whiped my hardrive and
>installed one of those distros on it if my modem would
>work but i cant go to any of the thursday meetings
>until after the football season because of games i
>have so if i brought it into PC Traning center isn't
>that the store next to the EUGLUG? would you guys fix
>it for me? ack....
>
> Please Help, Nate Backer
>
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