On Saturday 12 November 2005 02:20 pm, jim allAn wrote: > I have just come to the conclusion that the hawkins usb modem is a > total piece of shit. Don't worry I won't use that word again. > In windows xp, it works then doesn't work. When it doesn't it > dials out, handshakes, clicks and sounds dead. Checking the task > mgr. shows the system is locked at 100%, until I disconnect. The > software which installed and run beautiful last night quit and I > uninstalled it. When I tried to reinstall, it won't work. > I am computer literate and did manage a small BBS, before the net > came along, on two floppies and later with a hard drive, so I am more > than a newbie to computers in general. This thing has just got me > beat. I am going to take it back ASAP and get an external serial > port modem. That should fix it I used to run 8.? on a dial up line > > On 12 Nov 2005 at 14:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > jim allAn wrote: > > > I forgot to ask about installation of the software. I am > > > terribly > > > new to linux and stuck with the older 8.2 version. > > > > Ouch. That is about like running Windows 95. I never ran that version > > of Mandrake - 9.2 was the first version of Mandrake I ran. You should > > really try to get a newer version, as you will not even find security > > updates for that one. You will also run into problems with a lot of > > the newer hardware not being supported. I don't think that USB support > > was all that good in 8.2, but I could be wrong. > > > > Mikkel > > -- > > > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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