hi team im new to this board so you will have to bare with me if i make a few mistakes .

my Q im on dial up.

and i have mandrake 9.1 and 10.

and they will find all hardware drivers but the modem driver.

i understand this applys to all linux products when you use dial up.

i know mandrake 9.1 the modem driver has to be extracted from the disk through the konsole application.

does any one know the command line to extract the modem driver

for mandrake 10.

ive had this disk for 3-4 months.

and it is quite frustrating .

windows finds all drivers at boot up through plug and play.

a would appreciate any advice.

hope ive explained this as best i could

thanks in advance
lani

psi42

What modem do you have?

lani

my modem is linux compatable i bought it for that reason.

it is intel [R] 536ep

in regards to your firefox plug is it a stand alone .

sys or does it depend on other sys to survive.im happy with IE

marty

thebriggsdude

now this is not modem related but about firefox, firefox is standalone, on top of that its far safer then IE and it uses a tab feature rather then extra windows. its very light as well, won't use much of the system and well it has the feature to change skins and on top of that it almost never crashes, mainly none of the time. surely you are not happy with IE are you?

psi42

You would have been better off getting an external serial modem. The 536ep is a "controllerless" software modem, also called a winmodem. It depends on your cpu to do a lot of it's work and spoonfeed it in little chunks. A hardware modem is always much less of a hassle...

Well...here is the driver:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...7&DwnldID=5980

It says it only supports kernel versions up to 2.4.18... better hope that is wrong, because you need to be running at least 2.4.26 (for security reasons). Let's just hope the docs are out of date and the code will still compile for you.

Well, everything that big depends on something else. But I think I get your context, I think your answer would be a "yes" here.

Whaaa..aa.... you're using mandy and you still want IE? ....


Good luck,
~psi42

lani

i came here to ask about modem for mandrake driver.

but all i get is firefox jammed down my throat.

ive been there done that and i found if you use the resourses in ie it is as good as any browser.

i come from techtv message board.

and at the moment because firefox is getting more publicty.

it is also starting to get the troubles that ie is getting.

if i have to get firefox jammed down my throat.im outa here

i probably know more about it than most of the posters her

my Q was about mandrake 10 not firefox so quit pestering me with that FF

i find this forum is a platform to push FF .

shouldnt it be pushing all browsers.

marty

lani

hi thanks for the mandrake driver link.

yes i use it in a dual boot with xppro

i had xpro and mandrake 9.1 on a dual boot but the hdd was to small to sustain both

i had the modem configured by the company i bought the modem from.

nad it was working great but i made the mistake of uninstalling it.

so i could use a 20geg hdd for a dual boot

and now im stuck because i cant get on line with mandrake .

i actually like mandrake

and once i can configure that modem ile do away with xppro.

but as you can see i need xp to get on the net.

i notice when i had mandrake 9.1 it mozzilla as an extra browser.

but i didnt like it .

so i used kde.
again thanks for the link.
marty

thebriggsdude

hmm, i was not trying to be a nore was i jamming it anywhere, want another well hmm ever tried opera?? huh, aghhh techtv, that show has gone down the drain anyway, i havn't watched that in a year or more

sultan_emerr

The poster came here to ask for help on a specific problem, not to ask your opinion as to whether he should like IE6 or Firefox, so if you can't help him with his problem, then just

thebriggsdude

dude, don't stick it where you don't belong as well