Thanks Mark, The links were fine, but there was no scrolling, well not the type I'm looking for....
Pages like the news stories work by scrolling a frame, I think, but it seems to be broken in Mozilla (again). Not sure if they're using window.scroll, but hey ho, it was an idea.
Hi,
So I've got myself Linux SuSE (7.2 personal), and it all installed pretty well. The printer is printing, but not in colour (HP DJ880C), and the CD drive is working, but the speakers aren't yet. The word processor and spreadsheet should be sufficient for my report writing (although i'm going to need a substantial database - any ideas?).
The problem that I've got is the modem, which is a Conexant HCF 56K speakerphone PCI Modem. Now I can find a driver for it, but if I download it in windows, how can I transfer it across to Linux? Any help would be very gratefully received.
Apart from that, all seems to be going pretty painlessly. I'm impressed. I certainly like the feel of it, and the software that came on the CDs is pretty extensive.
A friend at work says that I'll be back on windows in three weeks - if I can sort the modem out I think that I might make things permanent!
Dave.
David Aldridge dave@dmaz.demon.co.uk wrote:
spreadsheet should be sufficient for my report writing (although i'm going to need a substantial database - any ideas?).
Depends how substantial you want. PostgreSQL gets the most use here, and there's a pgAccess front end (which I don't use much). If you want a larger download, SOT Office (based on OpenOffice) probably contains a database.
[...] if I download it in windows, how can I transfer it across to Linux?
At the very basest end, you could copy it onto a DOS floppy and use the mtools package to read it from GNU/Linux. (Or if you have an automounter, something like /mnt/floppy may automatically find it, but I'm not sure which distributions set up the automounter.)
A friend at work says that I'll be back on windows in three weeks - if I can sort the modem out I think that I might make things permanent!
Well, you're over the biggest hurdle (installation) and are asking questions of us. Always a good sign!
MJR
Thanks for all the help.
As many people enquired, yes I am using a partitioned drive, and I've now installed the software, and worked out a lot about using Linux in the process!
Unfortunately, the modem still doesn't work, so I'm still using Windows to access the internet. The problem seems to be that my particular modem isn't supported.(It is a cheap and nasty insurance replacement after a lightening strike took out my computer - I accepted the naff modem because the computer was three times as powerful!)
Thanks again.
Dave.
A quick poke around for you modem has come up with a few options...
One on the Manufacturers site... http://www.conexant.com/customer/md_driverassistance.html
Listed on the linmodem site.... http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hcf/
I've used both PostgreSQL and MySQL, my personal preference is MySQL, there are numerous interfaces for it, some run on Windows, most on Linux. But they're nearly all listed on the MySQL site
On Saturday 04 May 2002 3:39 am, David Aldridge wrote:
Hi,
So I've got myself Linux SuSE (7.2 personal), and it all installed pretty well. The printer is printing, but not in colour (HP DJ880C), and the CD drive is working, but the speakers aren't yet. The word processor and spreadsheet should be sufficient for my report writing (although i'm going to need a substantial database - any ideas?).
The problem that I've got is the modem, which is a Conexant HCF 56K speakerphone PCI Modem. Now I can find a driver for it, but if I download it in windows, how can I transfer it across to Linux? Any help would be very gratefully received.
Apart from that, all seems to be going pretty painlessly. I'm impressed. I certainly like the feel of it, and the software that came on the CDs is pretty extensive.
A friend at work says that I'll be back on windows in three weeks - if I can sort the modem out I think that I might make things permanent!
Dave.
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