Harm Bathoorn wrote: > > Hi all, > This is the second time I'm sending this question. I'm sorta dissapointed at > the silence. Does this mean that you all, despite all the noise you make > don't really know the difference between the slack PPP and the Mandrake PPP > (I certainly don't, but then I'm just a skipper trying to get his loaded > barge from Amsterdam to Paris and Vv--but I'm willing to learn, only I do > need help!) ..if so, that's just as bad as Windoze. Simply accepting all > that's delivered with the PC (or the cdrom) as the 'walhalla' and no > (real)questions asked! > Frankly I'm heavily dissapointed.............:( > ----- > > I've got a problem here. > I want to install Mandrake on my thinkpad(P133, 40m ram, 1 gbHD) -no problem > at all using 7.2........ > Here's the but: My gsm serial connection will not work and I realy need it to. > symptoms: > If/when the pcmcia card (cdromdrive) is in the socket I get 'sorry the modem > is busy' on a query (it's on ttyS1) > On removing the cdrom card I get a lot of gibberish on a query but at least > the modem is found. > Slowing down the modem to 2400 k reduces the gibberish that's all. > > The exact same configuration using Slackware7.2 works flawlessly. > Anybody got any hints how to get this out of the way? > > I badly want Mandrake on the laptop as I use it a lot to show off to windoze > users how linux makes old hardware look goood;) > > -- > > Thanks in advance, > Harm Bathoorn. > > "Free software is changing global economy the same way trade guilds did in > the middle ages" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I also have a Thinkpad (TP600E) and I have had an interesting time configuring it. In regards to the problem with the pcmcia card, it really sounds like a resource conflict; either IRQ or io address. There is a way to tell the pcmcia card manager to not use a particular resource range. You need to add the resources you want excluded to the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file. Do you have Mandrake 8.1 installed already, or are you trying to install it? Best regards Arnold -- Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand Phone: 011-66-2-545-5456 5th Floor, Tower 3, SCB Park Plaza FAX: 011-66-2-545-5374 19 Ratchadapisek Road, Chatuchak Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bangkok 10900, Thailand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Microsoft Windows: for when your machine is just too fast" "Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier!" "Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous"
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