Help on modem and etc

[saii]

I installed mandrake 8.1b on my computer.But it fail to detect my conexant internal modem.
it is Aztech 3885-U.And also i am a newbie in this,when i shutdown my linux,it come to a point that write "system halted" and stop and the power don turn off itself.Is that a problem?

[gritseater]

This site lists all the modems and how to get them working under linux, Rob Clark's Site (http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html)
My computer stops at the same place as yours- it has done that using Caldera and RedHat. I guess since theoretically you never have to turn off your computer using linux, no provision was made to automatically turn the power off. ;)

[wolfman8k]

Mandrake should power off your computer. You probably have an old or exotic mother board.

[carlywarly]

Go into the bios and look at your power management setup, you may need to enable apm or something similar.

[mdwatts]

My PC's would never power off until I found the correct kernel settings for power management.

Of course this would involve recompiling the kernel. Try what the others suggest first.

Here are the settings I use.

CONFIG_PM=y
# CONFIG_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set