On Sunday 14 January 2007 19:26, elc@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!