basiclinux and WORKING X!!!

Its working!! Just a matter of correct name...I had saved your file, Steven but had named it "xf86config", that didn't work...tried " XF86CONFIG"...that too didn't work but than changed it to "XF86Config" and that did it!the screen is not filled to the max widthabout 3/4s though.now t

re: sound card

Baastian, Mel and group- Thanks for the info regarding sound card. I ended up getting a hard drive that my father thought was bad. When I bought this machine I also bought a HD selector. The plan was to have windoze on one (with BeOS) and on the other HD I wanted DrDOS and Linux. I found that

winME and dos

Greetings... I found this paragraph talking about using Dos programs with WinME. Windows Me is built on ancient DOS code but no longer includes the real-mode DOS that let Windows 9x restart in MS-DOS mode or boot to a DOS prompt. A surprising benefit of the change is that DOS windows and full-scr

ibm netvista

Greetings- Does anyone on the list have an IBM Netvista pc with windows ME installed? I just purchased on to replace my troubled HP Pavilion. I installed Arachne and something unusual happened...a message came up and said that I did not have enough memory. Its a new machine!! Went ahead with t

win95 and boot

Hello- Or, thanks for the reply regarding win95 and booting up. Still can't get the laptop to start in dos...checked in autoexec.bat and this is what it says.. @echo off rem rem rem path c:\windows; c:\windows\command; c:\dos remarachne packet driver-- c:\arachne2\system\p

[Fwd: it works!]

Greetings All- Well my modem came in todays mail and after a stop to the local RS, I am happy to say (after much head scratching ) that I am able to log on with Arachne. So now it is learning time and will enjoy figuring out "how to" Thanks for alll the tips etc Now I need to load this ad

re:modem

Greetin's and glad the list is back up and running..well I have purchased a modem off of ebay and am waiting for its arrival...I know I am doing things against the advice of manybut it was only $5.oo Is anyone on the list using or familiar with the Motorola Power 28.8 Modem? The fellow I

list

is there a problem with the digest...I have not received anything for a few days

re: modem tests

Greetings again- On my HP pc, in modem properties it says that com1 has no modem installed and com2 has a conexant soft k56 pci modem. In more info it says com2 int.0 adr 2f8id pci rss18003 When I run modemtst it does a test on Port1 and it says it passed... serial 1 port ad 3f8 irq 4 ir

re: modem test

Greetings The modem test that Clarence sent just came through on this end as random letters and numbers I found a program called portinfo that checks for modems etc. It found it and my mouse, and gave its location etcbut I have to be honest, some of this is beyond me, I am still a roo

re: Modems

Many tnx for the info regarding modems. One more before I make a purchase. From some of the sites I have visited, it seems that Arachne will run fine with a 14.4 modem. Should I go for the faster modems? Tnx.Neil " I had a dream.just wished I could remember it"

modems

I have come to the conclusion that I have a winmodem. What type of modem should I get for Arachne? I don't want anything too fancy or expensive. Is an external one ok? Thanks Neil http://www.qsl.net/wa4chq "Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask...what Marilyn can do for my brother

re: modems

I have come to the conclusion that I have a winmodem. What type of modem should I get for Arachne? I don't want anything too fancy or exspensive. Is an external one ok? Thanks Neil http://www.qsl.net/wa4chq "Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask...what Marilyn can do for my brother

need some advice

Greetings all- I am new to Arachne and have loaded it into my Pc. I am using it offline at the moment because I can't get it to recognize my modemI am using a HP 6535 standard PC and am using w98. Is it not seeing the modem because of a conflict?? I am using Crosslink as my Internet Provid

test

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