Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3539 mails)

[John Heinen <hensandpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Archer wrote:
> John Heinen wrote:
> > Ken Schneider wrote:
> > > John Heinen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > > > I am very much ignorant about linux and openSuse, just installed it 
> > > > on a separate computer,
> > > > (just in case I burn the house - (windows-xp)-down
> > > > First about modems, I have an Agere LT Winmodem
> > > > and an external US Robotics 56K USB fax model modem.
> > > > Either one don't seem to respond.
> > > > Question  Which one would I need to buy  for the beast.
> > > > John A
> > >
> > > Welcome to openSUSE and the best place to find support for it. The 
> > > US Robotics you have should work fine. But if you need to buy 
> > > another one stay away from the win-modems as they won't work. There 
> > > is a program called seyon that you can use to talk to the modem to 
> > > see if it is working. Use the Program Manager part of YaST to 
> > > install it. It has been too long since I needed a modem to help much 
> > > more.
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> > >
> > > Oh, and please only reply to the list.
> > Ken What does that mean to the list, respond to the first
> > one responding?
>
> It means make sure you manually RE-address your reply to
> opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx, because the list management is on
> some holy crusade to not insert reply-to headers, based on
> the paranoid ravings contained in some stupid paper
> which has a title ending in "considered harmful" -- like
> most CS papers with  "considered harmful" in the title,
> the small-minded tend to draw overly-simplistic conclusions.
We probably have to start  from the beginning.
In the beginning God made the world and even things to come like modems 
and nice people that would stand by for the uneducated.
That said.
I start opensusy, my screen shows the following options, 
print/desktop/file system/network server/floppy/trash/media.
I click on config desktop/internet/network......and now I am stuck, 
forget what I did yesterday.?
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