The Bad Penny
02-07-2003, 02:33 PM
Hi all,
Ive been using Mandrake 9.0 for a few weeks now, nothing serious yet just moving in and out of the various apps and directories, setting it up just the way I want it & finding out what does what and where's everything else.
and of course my personal favourite “I wonder what happens if I do this?”
usually followed by “AWW ****!”
Im truly one of the blessed, because Mandrake 9.0 set my laptop up perfectly with no problems, although ACPI, wasn't configured by default in the kernel but Im almost there with it, and Im enjoying every minute of it,,,,,,,,,, except
My laptop (Hp Pavilion zt1151, 1.06ghz Celeron, 384mb ram & 20gb HDD) has a POS winmodem (ESS 56 superlink M) but on Linux-laptop.net I found this site:
http://www.wir-sind.org/poeschl/xt1000
It turns out this guy found a driver for the modem (written by someone at HP) and got it working under his Debian distro,
I tried and failed, but Im not that disappointed cos apart from the fact Im a noob, he said it was slightly unstable especially if eth0 was active at the same time as the modem.
It didnt work when I brought eth0 down either.
(I tried installing Debian just in case the driver was distro specific but the command line approach is a bit too advanced for me (for now) so I put Mandrake 9.0 back on.)
So I have this dilemma Im so damn sick of windows, but I need it for web access at the moment & Im thinking I need Linux to have web access so that i can dump windows.
(its a pain in the arse logging out of Linux & into windows everytime I need to get some info) and to do that I can either:
get another modem (preferably dongle free)
or
get myself a wireless lan card and access point and use it to access the web through ICS on NT4 server
I have searched both here and on google.com/Linux for wireless lan, the results were not really that relevant with regards to what im looking for.
So can you help me with some pointers,
where can I find out which dongle free modem's are Linux compatible
or
where can I find out which wireless lan card and access points are Linux compatible
and
which option is the best as I read somewhere that the throughput on wlan is very slow?
Im on a 56k dialup at the moment cos my local exchange isnt broadband ready and cable stops 2 doors away from me. Will the wireless card give me decent speeds over 56k and eventually broadband? (when the exchange get an upgrade)
Im looking for a direction here as I dont mind doing my own research, but I dont know which way to go now!
Any and all help, advice & opinions are very welcome.
Thanks in advance
BP
PS I havent had this much fun since learning m$-dos 6.22 & wfwg 3.11
Ive been using Mandrake 9.0 for a few weeks now, nothing serious yet just moving in and out of the various apps and directories, setting it up just the way I want it & finding out what does what and where's everything else.
and of course my personal favourite “I wonder what happens if I do this?”
usually followed by “AWW ****!”
Im truly one of the blessed, because Mandrake 9.0 set my laptop up perfectly with no problems, although ACPI, wasn't configured by default in the kernel but Im almost there with it, and Im enjoying every minute of it,,,,,,,,,, except
My laptop (Hp Pavilion zt1151, 1.06ghz Celeron, 384mb ram & 20gb HDD) has a POS winmodem (ESS 56 superlink M) but on Linux-laptop.net I found this site:
http://www.wir-sind.org/poeschl/xt1000
It turns out this guy found a driver for the modem (written by someone at HP) and got it working under his Debian distro,
I tried and failed, but Im not that disappointed cos apart from the fact Im a noob, he said it was slightly unstable especially if eth0 was active at the same time as the modem.
It didnt work when I brought eth0 down either.
(I tried installing Debian just in case the driver was distro specific but the command line approach is a bit too advanced for me (for now) so I put Mandrake 9.0 back on.)
So I have this dilemma Im so damn sick of windows, but I need it for web access at the moment & Im thinking I need Linux to have web access so that i can dump windows.
(its a pain in the arse logging out of Linux & into windows everytime I need to get some info) and to do that I can either:
get another modem (preferably dongle free)
or
get myself a wireless lan card and access point and use it to access the web through ICS on NT4 server
I have searched both here and on google.com/Linux for wireless lan, the results were not really that relevant with regards to what im looking for.
So can you help me with some pointers,
where can I find out which dongle free modem's are Linux compatible
or
where can I find out which wireless lan card and access points are Linux compatible
and
which option is the best as I read somewhere that the throughput on wlan is very slow?
Im on a 56k dialup at the moment cos my local exchange isnt broadband ready and cable stops 2 doors away from me. Will the wireless card give me decent speeds over 56k and eventually broadband? (when the exchange get an upgrade)
Im looking for a direction here as I dont mind doing my own research, but I dont know which way to go now!
Any and all help, advice & opinions are very welcome.
Thanks in advance
BP
PS I havent had this much fun since learning m$-dos 6.22 & wfwg 3.11