On Monday 01 September 2003 03:04 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: >> whack
> Hello all, > well I'm pleased [no, make that: amazed:)] to say that I went out > and got a modem, came home and plugged it in and connected first > time - no problems!!! I got an "Aztech 56K", Windoze detected it > on bootup and automatically installed the driver. I connected once, > in WIN2K to be sure before rebooting into Mandrake. > > Straight off the "what to do" menu "connect to the internet"; > all I had to tell it was the dialup number, username and password > and it connected. You guys may be shrugging and saying "so what"? > but for this is a big deal :) >>> whack Merlin: Glad that it worked out well for you. And now you know why so many of us get pissed off when we read those CNet/ZDNet/BlahNet/FUDNet articles about how hard it is to install Linux. (My all time favorite is the twit who didn't like the Mandrake installation because it didn't include a game to play during the installation.) -- cmg
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