On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:31 am, M.Schild wrote: > > There are _some_ internal modems that work quite well with Linux -- > > without drivers. The tricky bit is finding them. > > Maybe but if you are new to Linux and proudly want to install it on a new > machine you get stuck. What would your next move be? Windows? > Maryse
That has to be my answer. I am going to our local community centre tomorrow, some miles away from our place in the bush to download the kernel source which I need to get the winmodem on my Acer 1350 lappy working. The problem is that even there, it will take some time because we are too isolated to get broadband with anything faster than dialup speed, and satellite is fairly slow as well. But here at home where the telephone system is 2 tin cans connected by a thin string, it is even slower. We are moving onto solar power and I need that lappy because it uses less power. I moved from that to real live power, but have to move back. If I can't get this modem working in Linux, I am back to windows which I haven't used for a couple of years. Fact of life. Tough but unavoidable. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 ------------------------------- My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal. .............................Henry David Thoreau _______________________________ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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