Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable Sorry everyone - forgot the 'reply to' and format. That's good to know about the cables. Thanks. About to try download a driver in windows, save to disk and install in linux. Will give it a go anyway! Rosema

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Aron Smith wrote: You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable Okay - thanks.  I have found a driver for my modem and about to download in windows, hopefully! - save to disk, and install in linux.  Worth a try anyway! Rosemary

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 12 February 2005 07:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I > >haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not > > out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin >

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin connectors on it. Thanks. I was concerned because when lent my ol

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
computer. If it is a desktop, you probably have 2 of them. On older computers, you may have 1 db9 male and 1 db25 male for serial ports. The modem probably has a db25 female connector on it. Yes, my old computer had two, and this one has one. Good to know I have the backup option. Tha

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:51, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Thanks. Is the com port a nine pinned male connection? I can't > remember from last computer with external modem. > Am going to try configure existing modem first though. Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how ne

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes. The external serial modem will hook up to one of the existing serial ports on the computer. There should already be com ports and interrupts set aside for this under Linux, so all you have to do is tell whatever application you want that com1 is a modem. Th

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Yes. The external serial modem will hook up to one of the existing serial ports on the computer. There should already be com ports and interrupts set aside for this under Linux, so all you have to do is tell whatever application you want that com1 is a modem. That has no effect on com3, com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-11 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 11 February 2005 18:31, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > I checked the modem pages the other day and it seems my winmodem is up > and running with some linux distros, but I have yet to try to do it. > However if I decided to buy an external modem for linux can I run it > alongside my winmo

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-11 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I checked the modem pages the other day and it seems my winmodem is up and running with some linux distros, but I have yet to try to do it. However if I decided to buy an external modem for linux can I run it alongside my winmodem without conflict? Thanks Rosemary ___