Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 22:33, Julie Sloan wrote: Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from the linuxant site into the window$ partition Hi Julie, I have a Conexant modem running on Mdk10. It is an hcf modem and I also

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread simon
On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC - hardware - hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as unknown device. in MCC - network - make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 06 August 2004 05:54 am, simon wrote: Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't recognise my hcf modem, it would not configure my internet connection properly. I used Kppp dialer instead and manually configured (most settings are default). Thought that I would mention this really

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 06 August 2004 05:54 am, simon wrote: Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't recognise my hcf modem, it would not configure my internet connection properly. I used Kppp dialer instead and manually configured (most settings are default). http://pricewatch.com

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: http://pricewatch.com and search for external 56k modem and you will find a list of places that are currently selling a cendyne external serial modem for around $17 US. Granted, that is not a top of the line modem, but it uses an equivalent chipset to a Zoom external

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 09:34, Julie Sloan wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: http://pricewatch.com and search for external 56k modem and you will find a list of places that are currently selling a cendyne external serial modem for around $17 US. Granted, that is not a top of the line modem,

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from the linuxant site into the window$ partition Hi Julie, I have a Conexant modem running on Mdk10. It is an hcf modem and I also downloaded the driver from the

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC - hardware - hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as unknown device. in MCC - network - make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 06 August 2004 08:44, Julie Sloan wrote: simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC - hardware - hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as unknown device. in MCC - network - make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 06 August 2004 09:28 am, Julie Sloan wrote: I gather serial vs USB is the keyword here? (sorry - I'm *completely* ignorant. People probably wonder why I'm not on AOL :)) Serial as in, connects to the computer serial port which is the more traditional port for analog modem

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Friday 06 August 2004 15:44, Julie Sloan wrote: simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC - hardware - hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as unknown device. in MCC - network - make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread simon
simon wrote: I installed the rpm then as root ran hcfpciconfig Julie, as your modem is an hsf type you might have to run hsfpciconfig, not the hcfpciconfig that was for my hcf type modem. Simon. -- Registered Linux user number 359744.

[newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual booting with WinXP