[ALUG] linux newbie - help requested

[Ten]

On Sunday 14 January 2007 19:26, elc at freeola.net wrote:
> Hi
> I've been dabbling in Windows for a few years now and thought I knew
> something about what I was doing.
> Being reluctant to spend my hard earned cash on upgrading from Win 98 SE
> to another Gates product, I thought I would try Linux. I am now dual
> booting Win 98 and Kubuntu and working with a dial up internet
> connection. Now I realise how much I don't know !!!
> My winmodem is an Intel (R) 536 EP V.92 and Kubuntu doesn't recognise
> it. Somewhere the internet informs me that of all the winmodems in use
> the one I have should have a linux driver.
> I've downloaded 'scanmodem' and run it and I get hundreds of lines of
> text that means nothing to me.
> Linux looks good to me, and I feel like sticking with it, if only I can
> get past first base.
> Can someone talk me thru in one syllable steps please to overcome this
> first hurdle.#
> Many thanks
> Eric
>
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A couple of pieces of advice - first, if you can manage it at all, get a real 
external modem. My second piece of advice, and I can't say this emphatically 
enough, is don't let that winmodem deter you, because one of the most 
enthusiatic GNU/Linux users I know was nearly put off by a winmodem just 
before their open source epiphany.

That said, I've used an intel 536ep winmodem before in a pinch - if you want 
things to "just work", you would probably be best off with SuSE.

What a sad thing that the warm fuzzy feeling is gone from recommending SuSE
these days.

Cheers!
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