Another thing to add to this point.
Everybody is absolutely right, but another thing that will make Linux
faster then Windows9x and WindowsME, is that Micro$HAFT thinks their
god. So they made everything for themselves.
Micro$HAFT wrote their own version of TCP/IP. Pretty much what they
did with the Novel drivers, just for different reasons. From what I
understand, they plan on going back to the raw TCP/IP we all use in
Linux for WindowsXP, but with the other versions it's their own version
of it.
It still has the same basica layers with some extra bloated Micro$HAFT
philosophy thrown in there for.... "good measure!"
tdh
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| Hello Guys,
|
| No joke something very positive is happening with my LM 8. I'm gonna tell you, right
|now.
|
| I bought an external modem almost one week ago, after been plagued by having a
|Winmodem. It was no way to setup this modem with LM 8. Now comes the interesting
|point:
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| When I installed LM 8 I had the old Winmodem. Interesting enough the LM 8 detect it
|correctly but no driver was available. So I got it out of my system by physically
|removing it. Fair enough. Now at the next boot Kudzu told me that this device (the
|old winmodem) is no longer on my system and it asked if I want to uninstall it. It is
|exactly which I did by answering yes. Okili dokili.
|
| Then I connected my external modem to COM2 . When I started Mandrake Control Center
|and I clicked on Hardware category the LM 8 began to detect my possible new hardware.
|I was very amazed to see that my External modem it wasn't detected at all. I tried
|Kudzu manually from console, it didn't worked. Neither Detect utility.
|
| I went to Create a new Internet connection and this wizard detected that on "COM2: a
|modem was detected". Good. Now I was curious to see if I am starting Kppp and I am
|querying the modem if will work. It worked perfect. So... I said if Linux is so
|Esoteric let's give it a try and to see if I can connect to Internet.
|
| It may seem to you amazing but I connected to Internet perfectly. One thing which I
|saw is that the Internet connection under Linux is faster than running it from my
|Windows Me partition. I forgot to tell you that I am dual booting with Windows Me and
|is working perfectly.
|
| My question to you guys is the following: How this can be possible (under Linux) not
|to have a driver but to use my modem ? Maybe someone will enlighten me, because I am
|really puzzled... My external modem is this: MR56SVS-EX2 by TAICOM.
|
| That's concludes the miracle.
|
| Have a nice modem... I meant weekend,
|
| Alex
