[wellylug] newbie installation question

[Colin Klenner]

If you are living in the Wellington East / South suburbs then perhaps I
can offer some help on an evening or weekend for a couple of hours and
we can sort it out with you first hand?

-- 
Colin Klenner <colink at clear.net.nz>
Maupuia
mobile  021 1099 834


On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:31, firstname lastname wrote:
> I have a compaq deskpro pc with a pentium2 266mhz processor and 320MB of 
> ram. I have never used linux before and have just installed mandrake10.0 
> from a set of  cds from Dick Smiths.
> 
> 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. i can not see it 
> listed under hardware or peripherals. how can i check that the modem is 
> recognised in mandrake and if it has not been recognised how do i force 
> mandrake to recognise it?
> 
> 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?
> 
> i am a long time windows user and this is my first experience of linux. 
> please couch your help in language that an old person will be able to 
> understand.
> 
> thank you very much for any help you can give me.
> 
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