[wellylug] newbie installation question

[firstname lastname]

Nick, i have taken your advice. on the way home yesterday i picked up the 
XH1154 56kb modem from DSE. i even managed to execute commands in the 
terminal window and was feeling rather pleased. Unfortunately when i went to 
install the driver it wanted an earlier version of the kernal. if i had 
windows disks then i would have installed them. This morning i have found 
the drivers for mandrake 10 for the 536EP v.92 whatever on the intel site 
and hopefully this evening i will have internet access that doesnt involve 
stealing it from my boss.

fingers crossed for sucess adn then i guesss its time for a lot of reading 
to get up to speed on all this.  i had naively assumed that this would be a 
simple, touble free experience. i guess i am paying in time for what i saved 
in money on hardware.

thanks to everyone for their help.

>From: Nick Jensen <nickspoon 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 10:56:08 +1300
>
>On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:31:47 +0000, firstname lastname
><post_box_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
>  Hi there - unfortunately getting a 56k modem to be recognised by
>Linux can be quite tricky - the reason being (roughly) that (nearly)
>every company that makes modems creates drivers for it so Windows will
>recognise it, and Windows will then incorporate the drivers into the
>Operating System so the modem is automatically recognised. However,
>there's less money in Linux, so the companies spend much less time
>writing drivers for it.
>  There are various places you can look for drivers for Linux, but my
>advice (the advice I took) is to go back to Dick Smith and get their
>generic 56k internal modem for $29 - it comes with drivers for lots of
>Linux distributions including Mandrake, and it works well and fast.
>  I hope I haven't put you off Linux with this little tirade, I nearly
>got put off it several years ago when I first tried to connect to the
>internet and realised I had to learn what the difference between a
>software and hardware modem was. But persevere, it's good fun, and if
>you get the Dick Smith modem you can bypass all the agonising I had to
>do.
>
>     Nick
>
>
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