I'm going to talk in terms of redhat since that's what I had used previously and also in terms of slackware since that's what I use now. redhat had wvdial included along with a support package for finding dial up modems. Slackware has minicom but no additional package built in for this purpose. It's true one can download and install ezsetup but again that's another download. wvdial requires at least one other package be installed and set up before it will work and again both are downloads in the case of slackware but are not in the case of redhat. I don't know that wvdial will work on slackware if properly installed since I didn't get that done. On the other hand, ethernet is set up by the same program on slackware and redhat and I suspect other linux versions; ifconfig. That's because ifconfig has become a standard of sorts. Standards get there when things get built into the genes of operating systems. When standards don't exist it's because the underlying operating system is being tried out with different software to see what will work best.
Jude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:38:09AM -0500, dashielljt wrote: > > linux works lots better with ethernet cards and cable modems than the > > older slower modems. I use slackware 8.0 myself and like it. For one > > What do you mean "works lots better"? My system works fine with a > dial-up modem, I just had to make sure not to get one of those winmodems > to work with it. I use a US Robotics "Performance Pro" modem, it was > autodetected by SuSE (which has special braille-screen features on install > from what I understand) and worked fine after a "/dev/MAKEDEV ttyS4" for > Debian 3.0 (The one thing that's tricky about it is that it wants COM5:) > Almost any standard external modem will work as well. (And not require > any ttyS4 port shenanighans.) > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
