Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:46:34 07/21/99
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On July 21, 1999 at 09:26:23, Dan Homan wrote: >On July 21, 1999 at 06:36:02, Gunnar Andersson wrote: > >>On July 21, 1999 at 01:34:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Just because you (Vincent) haven't sold a linux version yet is totally, >>>100% meaningless, in the world of computing. Linux is now the most installed >>>unix system around. Companies like RedHat have streamlined the installation >>>via CD to the point that beginners (even students) are getting it up in no >>>time at all... >> >>Depends on what you want to do and what you mean by "beginner"; I've been using >>various PC OSes sice 1986 and Unix (Solaris) since 1990 but have during the >>eight months I've been experimenting with RedHat 5.2 not been able to use either >>the modem or the soundcard. RH installation supposedly takes care of this but >>they still don't work. Digging into the documentation and fooling around with >>minicom etc didn't help me either. >> >>I really like Linux and would like to use it more but the fact that I can't even >>configure my rather standard system keeps me from doing this. >> >>Of course the reason for my failure might be that I'm a complete klutz but the >>answers I got from comp.os.linux.setup didn't help me (and were sometimes >>contradictory). > >The only modems that should be a problem are "winmodems". These are rather >common now and will not work with linux. Some plug and play modems might >be a little difficult, but you can most easily solve those problems by >booting into Win95/98 first and then launching linux. > >Plug and Play sound cards can also be a problem, but the solution is the >same - launch Win95/98 first then launch linux. You will need to setup your >sound card the first time you do this, but after that it should work everytime >you boot Win95/98 first followed by linux. The reason this scheme works is >that Win98/99 sets up the plug and play devices and that information is >preserved as long as you don't power down the machine. An alternative >is plug and play software for linux (pnpconfig?), but this can be rather >difficult to use. > >Oh, some Plug and Play devices have a switch to turn the plug and play >features off. > > - Dan > > this isn't generally necessary under 2.2 kernels with the new sound drivers. PnP seems to work fine. 2.0 and earlier kernels had problems with it of course... >> >>/ Gunnar
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