Hardware: ThinkPad X21 with UltraBay; newly obtained
PCMCIA fax/modem card to use to dial up my ISP.
Question: Should the fax/modem card be inserted first
and then a new Linux installation performed or should
the card be inserted while Linux is running and it
will be recognized so that it can be
Story: continued three month long serial device saga.
Problem: cannot use external modem on serial port on
ThinkPad X21 Ultrabay
Latest attempts (using Fedora Core 2, Mandrake 10.0,
Mandrake 9.1, SuSe 9.1):
1. BIOS: serial port enabled
dmesg | grep tty recognizes ttyS0 at I/O 0x3F8 (IRQ=4)
is a
Best 2004 distribution? Fedora Core 2.
--- Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2004 02:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:14 am, Randall D. Hobbs
> wrote:
> > > If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this
> link will do it:
> > >
> > >
>
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System: IBM ThinkPad X21 with Ultrabay
Operating system Mandrake 10.0
GUI: Gnome (also tried KDE)
Modem: Hawkins Serial Modem (Hayes compatible)
The modem works perfectly on a serial port of a
Sun UltraSpark Workstation running Aurora Linux (a
version fo RedHat 7.3 ported to Sun)
Logical
