Re: [newbie] Re: Conexant on Compaq Presario 12XL509 with mandrake 8.1

2001-10-20 Per discussione Allen H
Did you receive the .inf file I sent you? Did it work? Or are you a totally different person? ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading the installation guide for the olitec drivers with the wrapper for kernel 2.4 and it says that the kernel must be without SMP support or I will receive

Re: Re: [newbie] Re: Conexant on Compaq Presario 12XL509 withmandrake 8.1

2001-10-20 Per discussione Allen H
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I won't be installing Linux on my Presario 12XL3 laptop anytime soon (same modem). At 07:29 PM 10/20/2001 +0100, G.M.Laudone wrote: Hi there..no unfortunately the inf file you sent me didn't work and after playing around for a while i decided that my system

[newbie] Digital Camera Quickie

2001-10-19 Per discussione Allen H
Just another quickie: Has anyone used a Pretec DC-520 Dual-Mode VGA Digital Camera either as a webcam or as a digital camera on Mandrake, or any Linux for that matter? Or even heard of it? HardDrake doesn't know what it is, it just tells me its a USB device,

Re: [newbie] CONEXANT on compaq presario 12XL509 with MAndrake 8.1

2001-10-17 Per discussione Allen H
The olitec drivers never worked for me and I also got those no dialtone errors after using hsfcompat. There are several inf files on the web, you have to look for them yourself, though. I've heard or read of some people who copy their Windoze inf files, but I'm sure that won't work. Here's

[newbie] Question on SiS 6326

2001-09-26 Per discussione Allen H
I have an old sis6326(AGP) card and have a question to anyone using it or has used the card. Why is it that I can't go up to 24bpp on 800x600, or even 16bpp on 1024x768 in X ? It won't work with any window manager, even blackbox; or doesn't this matter at all. I read somewhere on the

Re: Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-22 Per discussione Allen H
Noits the 3CP5699A, it says made specially for the Windows operating system on the box. I need 3cmlnkw.exe in Win to get it to work. I tried the PCTel chipset driver, loaded the serial and ppp modules and got the modem responding in minicom, but I get an I/O error when I try to dial with

Mysterious Behavior (Was RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem)

2001-09-22 Per discussione Allen H
I've tried everything on it already, tried different drivers out of desperationutter desperation. BTW, I borrowed a Hayes Accura Faxmodem from my brother and got it to work a couple of times. Now, when kudzu tries to probe COM2, my box reboots! I tried turning it on once I entered linuxconf