I just spent christmas vacation configuring a laptop to dual boot (it's a shared office laptop). ran fips, installed base system from floppies and then used the cd that came with "Learn Debian GNU/Linux". Everything went pretty good (considering my ignorance) until some packages decided they didn't want to install. "No problem," I said. "I'll just configure my modem and connect to the internet to update the packages." About 4 hours later, I discover that my laptop has a win modem in it. :(
I suppose all is not lost. I have a network card that I can use at work to connect to the LAN, but I must say that I was quite depressed. Not really any sense having a linux laptop that can't connect to the internet remotely. Are Win modems ever going to be supported? I suppose that is up to the manufacturers...bleh, how depressing. =========================================== Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 ===========================================
