[wellylug] newbie installation question

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Wed Nov 10 11:42:32 NZDT 2004


thank you i'll try both pieces of arcanea and see how i go.

>From: jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] newbie installation question
>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:31:58 +1300
>
>On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:31:47 +0000, firstname lastname wrote:
> > I have two problems (that i am aware of.
> > 1. i have an external modem (US Robotics 56KB message modem) which i do 
>not
> > think has been detected durring the mandrake installation.
>
>[snip]
> >
> > 2. The pc has an integrated soundcard from ESS technologies. this has ot
> > been recognides durring the install. what changes do i need to make to 
>allow
> > mandrake to use this sound card?
> >
>
>You don't by chance know the model number on the soundcard?  Typing
>'lspci' in a terminal may give you this information if you don't have
>it already.  ESS chips are normally supported okay; you just need to
>model number to know which driver to load.
>
>As for the modem, if you try running kppp (what's the Gnome equivalent
>the rest of you fullas?), it should give you the option to set up the
>modem.  If it's a serial modem, it should be detected on /dev/ttyS0,
>/dev/ttyS1 or some such.  If it's USB, I'm not sure where it shows up.
>
>--
>Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, 
>/l at omcgtjuba.phi/')
>
>
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