Ian Betts wrote: > OK folks, thanks for replying. Have patience with this old idiot please. > > I use a Sagum Fast 800 modem through USB for internet connection. > > I have learnt Linux prefer network connectors. Am I right in that because > this modem does not have one. >
First... make sure you spell things correctly... it is Sagem. If Google had not suggested the correct spelling, I would have been unable to locate the manufacturers website: http://www.sagem.com/index.php?id=182&L=0 Remember... Google is your friend. By adding the word 'linux' to the correctly spelled name of the modem, and running that through Google, I was able to find a page titled: 'SAGEM Fast 800 Success story' ...which is at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=202072 I did not take time to read the article, but the title suggest that you might find it useful... in spite of the very first sentence in the article stating: "Browsing this forum I've read a number of horror stories regarding this dreaded piece of hardware, namely the "Sagem Fast 800" USB ADSL. I'm frankly surprised of Reading about so many trouble and since I have it working both on Red Hat 9 and Slack-ware 9.1 (my ISP is Telecom Italia), I've decided to put some order on the issue." > Having first installed Ubuntu 5.10 and then 6.06 on my slave drive when I > boot I see a list that contains the 6.06 list, my XP and the 5.10 list. How > can I remove the 5.10 entry? > By editing whichever config file your bootloader (LILO, Grub, whatever) is using. Read the man page for the bootloader. > I will try hard not to use Window word here? > This should not be an issue, because the bootloader is on a *nix partition, and therefore, inaccessible to Windows, but yes, when editing config files, use a text editor, like vi, because you do not want to leave text formatting characters (produced by office-type apps, to give you nice fonts, etc.) in a config file. If this is your Windows bootloader you are referring to, that you want to modify, that too can be done by editing a text file, from insode Windows, using notepad.exe. Personally, being extremely lazy, I do not usually bother to erase unneeded entries in boot loaders... I just remember that they don't go anywhere, and so I don't bother using them. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
