Fireman71 wrote: > > I finally decided to try to install MD7.2 on a HP Vectra 5 with a pentium > 120 32meg ram and the original cd rom that came with the machine and ran > into some difficulties. > > 2 - I did not see anywhere where i could chose to upgrade instead of doing a > fresh install. Not a major problem because ihad backups of all my data jusr > irksome that i had to go through and restore those backupsinstead of being > able to just upgrade and leave the data alone. > > 3 - Now here is the biggest problem. I have an external USR 56k modem that > is NOT a win modem. It worked flawlessly under MD7.1, RedHat6.0 and 6.1. So > i KNOW it is supported by linux. The modem is attached to ttyS1. IN MD7.1 > the hardware configuration detected the modem and set it up on the first go. > Under MD7.2 it refuses to believe that a modem is even there. I tried 5 or 6 > times to get it to detect it and each one failed. This left me with no > choice but to reinstall MD7.1. Does anyone know if this is just something > that mandrake overlooked or what? > > All in all I liked what i saw of the MD7.2 installation but these problems > make me really wonder if it was as thought out as it needed to be since the > MD7.1 instal goes flawless on every machine i have tried to run it on. > > I would greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions from anyone about how > to resolve the problems i listed above. > > Ian K. Harrell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ian, hi, I have a similar problem with a cdrom that has trouble reading a cd-r, and cannot read a cd-rw. I believe the quality or age of the cdrom may make a difference. I noted the same problem at work, all were 24X cdroms in various brands. The modem thing is a puzzle. My modem worked on ttys2 in 7.1 and now works on /dev/modem in KPPP. try setting to just /dev/modem and see what happens. On another machine with an external modem I had fooled with the bios when only win98 was on it. The 7.2 program either couldn't find the modem or said it was not responding, depending on which ttys? I set to. I finally just went in to bios and went back to default settings and voila! my modem was working. Don't know if any of this helps or if you been there and done that, but I put it on the table just in case. Good Luck -- Dennis Myers registered Linux User #180842
