On Monday 06 January 2003 1:48 pm, dan07 wrote:

Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:17:59 -0600 Teresa Binstock wrote

I'm a newbie. 8.1 and am having trouble with USRobotics external. I've found similar lamentations and long series of ineffective help on various boards. Perhaps 8.1 and USRobotics are simply incompatible, perhaps the 8.1 patch & update has resolved some of these issues. Can I download the 8.1 patch/update into an XP partition or directly to CD while using XP (and the US Robotics)? Thnx, Teresa

What are the problems you're having? Is it not recognized by yast? Just doesn't dial? or something else(errors out)? If you go into kppp, setup and query the modem does it respond? have you tried http://www.linmodems.org, it's usually just for winmodems but a driver might be on there. How about usrobotics' site? When looking for a modem I saw a few of their modems were supposedly linux compatible. and finally yes you should be able to download the rpm in XP, save it to the disk and then install it through linux. That is if you can mount your windows partition. If not the cd way will work. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.1.