Well I am one happy chicken at the moment! :-)
I changed my modem to IRQ 5 last night (with setserial), and got an
internet connection without any problem. Bye bye Windows! I can't wait to
format the Windows half of my hard drive :-)
Many thanks to everyone who helped me get this sorted over the last few
days, especially Norma for posting the setserial command in the first
place.
cheers,
- Kev
Norma Armstrong wrote:
> Disgusting they are especially when they fail to work for the Operating
> system they are meant to work with! (Like mine I can't even get the
> resources changed because Windows won't let me set it).
>
> Norma
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly Lynn Martin
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:25 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:13:19 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > >That's what windoze Help told me to do, but I don't have a
> > >'Resources' tab there. Help said it sometimes isn't there, but it
> > >didn't offer any alternative course of action. Any other way I can
> > >find out?
> >
> > If there's no "Resources" tab then the device you've selected is a
> > "virtual" device which doesn't really have any hardware directly
> > associated with it. You'll have to poke around to find what the
> > "real" modem device is. (This may mean you have a winmodem; I have no
> > experience with those disgusting things.)
> >
> > Kelly
> >
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