On Saturday 30 November 2002 09:02 pm, Idea.list2BT wrote: > Can someone tell me why, with LM-8.2 we simply had to load the > USB-Speedtouch file mgmt.o into usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o and then Linux > detected it but with LM-9 it doesn't? > > I was even more disappointed to find that I might have to do god-knows-what > to the kernel and recompile it to get Speedtouch recognised by LM-9. > > Have Mandrake not put the same facilities in LM-9 as they had in 8.2? > > Now for the sulky bit - (you don't need to read this, I'm just venting) - > and don't tell me that you all don't secretly sulk. I'm feeling very > **ck*** sorry for myself! I want my Linux! > I've been trying, on and off, for literally years to get into Linux, and > Mandrake 8.2 was the closest I've been to a working system. I was finally > able to actually start learning Linux with it! Then of course there came > closing down problems which led to more probs and that was the end of a > working ML8.2 system. I can't easily install a new Linux on my tri-boot > machine - Win2000, Win98 (for work reasons) & Mandrake - so it wasn't until > I noticed that vers 9 was available that I got the enthusiasm to disturb my > machine again with a new Linux install. I was at least confident that > problems with the USB Speedtouch had been solved way back in the 8.2 past. > Instead there seems to have been a step backward. > > As the USB-Speedtouch is supplied by Britain's largest ISP British Telecom, > to all it's ADSL customers there must be so many thousands of punters out > there needing it to work with Mandrake I am amazed that Mandrake seem to > have chosen to 'withdraw their support??' for it. > > Mandrake detects all my other peripherals but not this bloody modem. > > Kernel - Shmernel! I haven't even learned how to escape from the gui and > get to the command line yet - that's another prob I've got. (I was weaned > on CPM and DOS so I can appreciate the value of using the command line). > > I don't know why I'm such a fan of Mandrake, perhaps because the RedHat > Book&Disc kit I bought in 1997 nor the various systems from magazine covers > have never worked, perhaps because this has always been such an informative > n.g. :-), who knows. > > If anyone can help I'd apreciate it. > Five years of being a Newbie is very embarrasing - what can I tell my kids? > > Thanks > Dave > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.408 / Virus Database: 230 - Release Date: 24/10/2002 Mandrake has packages on CD1, look for speedtouch, it is the usb ALCETEL modem and you should have the driver and a management package to install. No kernel recompile needed I don't think. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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