Re: Winmodem?

On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:44 am, Stephen King wrote:
> OK...I'm rapidly coming to believe that it is easier to make a laptop
> levitate than to get the Linux desktop (Xandros 2.0, in this case) to
> recognize the winmodem that came installed in it. I've gone to the
> Xandros support site and several posts say "Oh, yeah, it works
> great...just load this driver..." (different drivers each time) and I've
> loaded the drivers, but still it's coming up as a no.

Could be a pppd issue too. Fun Fun ;)

> Since I'm not
> looking forward to explaining to non-technical clients that the 'win' in
> winmodem means Linux doesn't like it...anybody have any ideas?

What modem is it?

> The
> really painful part is that it's a dual-boot machine between Xandros and
> XP...modem works beautifully in XP. Grrrr....
>
> Thanks to the person who suggested the 'man cdrecord'; gave me some good
> info but didn't work. The clients are enjoying their Windows machines'
> ability to write directly to a CD as though it were a floppy. The
> Windows app is called InCD. My experiences with cdrecord have resulted
> in long command lines, having to know which track the file is on, and
> corrupting the CD in the end. I did find a udf writing app from
> sourceforge that I'll try today...wish me luck.

If it's kde arena, have them use k3b; Flawless here.

> Oh, yeah, and more experience (experience being what you got when you
> didn't get what you wanted)...never ever install a distro without the
> "Developer Tools" (i.e., gcc) no matter what level user is gonna be
> running it. Invariably you need a driver, a Novell client, or an
> upgrade to a program which is only available in source. Then you have
> to find gcc, which AFAIK is also only available in source, and so you
> wish you had a compiled compiler to compile the compiler. Bad root. No
> cookie. =20

Go sit in your kennel, bad rewt! bad rewt!

bests,
eddie

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Received on Thu Jul 29 18:42:17 2004