On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: > Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just > thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous > versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in > the same boat. > > Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard work > fine and the battery level monitor works fine, all of which refused to > work previously. After install I spent about another 2 hours with it > installing more apps and 'playing arround' without any problems or > stability issues. Only thing that remains to be done is find a driver > for the software modem. > > I guess they were dinkum when they said 10.1 had improved laptop support. > > Cheers, > Aidan
Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ----------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- He had the look of a lawn mower just after the grass had organised a workers' collective. There was a definite suggestion that, deep inside, he knew this was not really happening. It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. (Jingo)
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