Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-14 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:26, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 Jan 2005 02:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-14 Thread John Layt
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:38, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: ... Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard work fine and the battery level monitor works fine, all of which refused to work previously. After install I spent about

[newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aidan Holmes
Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aidan Holmes
Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't hold much hope for itbut i can dream hey ;) We live out in

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:53, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aidan Holmes
Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that is available. ISDN is

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:26 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm