[wellylug] newbie installation question

[firstname lastname]

Colin, that is a really generous offer. thank you so much but i am in the 
wrong part of town.

If i can prevail upon the wellylug for one more piecve of advice, i assume 
that you are all pros with the whole linux experience and do all your work 
yourselves but do you know of any upgrade/repair shops that 'know' linux and 
even do installs? there is place near to me adn the guy was very helpful 
getting me second hand parts to upgrade the old work computer i am trying to 
use but he had no knowledge of linux. if there ewas a place where i could go 
where the guy knew what hardware would work under linux and could 
troubleshoot problems for new users like me. that would be incredibly 
helpful.

i am fairly tech literate, and i am not enjoying feeling this stupid. does 
anyone have a good experience of a local tech store?



>From: Colin Klenner <colink at clear.net.nz>
>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 19:38:35 +1300
>
>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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