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HibbeeBoy:
Well, I am having a fine old time of it I must say. This Linux stuff is pretty damn good. However I have still not managed an internet connection. I think the problem is my years of Windows way of thinking. So, can anybody point me in the right direction ? I am using YsST2 in SuSe to configure the modem on my Dell but how do I test if the modem is even getting a dial tone and how do I configure Konqerer and e-mail to use that particular dial up connection/configuration ? I will be trawling the SuSe web site for info but just wondered if anybody could help.

Calum:
if you are using kde then there is an easy way to sort out your modem, i am assuming you mean a dialup modem, yes?

go and either open a terminal, or go to the start menu and select 'run command', then type in 'kppp', this brings up a dialogue box which is incredibly similar to the add new connection wizard in windows. This kppp program is a graphical frontend for 'ppp' so if you have any problems with it, open a terminal and type 'man ppp' for some enthralling bedtime reading.

HibbeeBoy:
Ah, magic. Yes it's a dial up modem. Thanks for your help I'll try it tonight. The wife is getting a bit fed up with me dicking around on the PC and the bairn can't play her games while I'm on it but it's good fun. Once I get the sound card configured and internet connection I'm off to the races !
Thanks for your help, I don't care what everybody else says about you, you're not that bad   ;)    :D  

PS. Hibees are back !

DJ:
Hey sorry to bring this up again everyone but I plan on partition my HD and installing Mandrake on my 2nd PC this weekend These are the new download options;

Download: Mandrake 9.0/i586 | Mandrake 9.0/i586 ISO Image | Mandrake 7.1/SPARC/UltraSPARC ISO Image | Mandrake 7.1/AXP ISO Image | Mandrake 7.0/i486 ISO Image | Mandrake IA64 | Mandrake 8.2/PPC |  | MandrakeSecurity Single Network Firewall

Do I want to go for the 9.0 ISO or not?

Also what do the Linux gurus here think about redhat?

DJ

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]

RudeCat7:
I'm curious about Mandrake too, I've never actually run that distro.

But I do have an opinion about Redhat 8.0..IMHO
Personally, I think it will be better with the next release.I was kinda surprised that they would release a distro that required a patch for xmms to play mp3z. Then, there is a tiny bug in Mozilla, in the address bar, if you right click, so you can select all, the menu disappears, and then refuses to come back up again. You have to use the main menu to "select all".
I've noticed also, that sometimes, a warning will pop up that "such and such" daemon is slowing down other processes.."do you want to close it?" this seems bizarre to me.
I'm going to keep using it though, until I learn to patch the kernel, and install modules. Then I'm gonna move on to Slackware fulltime. Mostly, I'm disappointed because 8.0 doesn't include the HP backends to support my 5100c scanner, which does work in Suse, but Suse comes with these backends preinstalled. They are a real pain in the arse to install right now.

Those are my bugs, but I still think it is cool.

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

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