On Monday 14 February 2005 20:55, Melissa Allen wrote: > I have located the download page for the driver for my particular Intel > PCI modem and for Mandrake 10 and up. I'll guess that I need the > version for the default configured Mandrake 10.0 system, but what is > the "SMP configured" system?
Symmetric MultiProcessor. Usually servers although I have had this kernel get installed by default on my Dell Laptop which only has a single processor. Not sure why but I usually replace with a standard kernel and it doesn't really affect anything. You probably want to stick to non-SMP kernels since my guess is that you have a single processor. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. > <g> Just because I might learn something, I'll try installing the > driver first. If I can't make it work, I'll go for the external serial > modem... Never hurts to learn something. Well mostly, anyway. <g> The only reason that I suggest external serial is that in a lot of cases, you have to install a lot of developer tools to get a winmodem working and even then, it is simply not as fast or good as an external serial. Some of the drivers are proprietary and the free versions are speed locked to a lower speed to entice you to pay the $45 vendor fee to get the fast ones. Given that the Windows drivers are free, I would refuse to pay this out of principle, much less for a lower speed, software modem. Throw in the cost of the external serial models and you might want to get one despite getting the winmodem to work, which is what I did. -- Bryan Phinney
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