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@opensuse.org, 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,
Matt Archer wrote: 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.? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org