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| 790795 | 2009-07-12 09:20:00 | Somewhere in all these postings I read "winmodems used to be a real No No for linux and unless this has changed then the chances of getting on line without an external modem is very remote. It's changed. It's still rather annoying getting them to work, but most of them do work these days. I don't recommend trying though unless you are experienced at using a Linux shell environment, and (for some modem drivers) able to write the necessary C code to get the damn driver to work . " I haven't even used linux yet, let alone know how to mess with it's shell. Any Linux that can connect to the internet on a dial-up soft modem made somewhere in china? |
Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
| 790796 | 2009-07-12 11:44:00 | Depends very much on exactly which modem we're talking about here. Unless you know, I don't recommend you try. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 790797 | 2009-07-12 11:58:00 | So, even if I managed to install Linux on it, I cant update it. At least with XP, I can use a flash drive, and copy whatever updates to it then update it Very easy to do the same in Linux. I do it all the time. Update mine via broadband then update others. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 790798 | 2009-07-12 12:11:00 | Well the point is Linux wont install end of story. No matter what I do | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 790799 | 2009-07-12 19:37:00 | Somewhere in all these postings I read "winmodems used to be a real No No for linux and unless this has changed then the chances of getting on line without an external modem is very remote. It's changed. It's still rather annoying getting them to work, but most of them do work these days. I don't recommend trying though unless you are experienced at using a Linux shell environment, and (for some modem drivers) able to write the necessary C code to get the damn driver to work . " I haven't even used linux yet, let alone know how to mess with it's shell. Any Linux that can connect to the internet on a dial-up soft modem made somewhere in china?If you can get hold of an external serial modem, that will make life a lot easier when connecting Linux to the net via dialup. Thats what I did (till I shifted to broadband) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 790800 | 2009-07-13 13:02:00 | It didnt get that far for me to disable it in the setup. It boots from the cd checks whatever / spits the dummy, then says something about it being 1999 / pre-2000, something about APIC thats it. Then stops And its not in the BIOS if thats what you mean. Too bad now, XP is on it. I had a similar issue once myself. Ubuntu turned ACPI off (different from APIC) because BIOS was pre-2000. However the board supports ACPI just fine. I hacked the BIOS image to make it think it was built in 2009. Worked fine after that. Also I modified the sign-on message for fun :) If you got GRUB installed, just start hitting ESC soon as you're out of the POST, and then you should be able to edit the boot flags Ubuntu won't run too bad on a 700Mhz PC but try and put as much RAM in it as you possibly can. Modem might work if you're lucky. However Puppy or DSL would run like a dream, not sure about the modem but Puppy would probably be more likely to support it than DSL |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 790801 | 2009-07-13 13:09:00 | Oops, probably got ACPI and APIC mixed up lol. It may have been ACPI. It doesnt get as far as grub. So i cant select anything / disable or enable anything. Shows the message then kaputt it goes round in circles if I reset / reboot | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 790802 | 2009-07-13 13:30:00 | Oops, probably got ACPI and APIC mixed up lol. It may have been ACPI.All good - there are similar options for disabling ACPI, either partly or completely. It doesnt get as far as grub. So i cant select anything / disable or enable anything. Shows the message then kaputt it goes round in circles if I reset / rebootTrust me, if it's getting far enough to give you errors like that then it's past the bootloader stage. If it wasn't getting as far as the bootloader, then you wouldn't be able to run Windows on it either - and you say Windows works fine. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 790803 | 2009-07-13 21:42:00 | Yeah XP is fine, didnt have any probs installing it at all. (I had to update the BIOS tho, for the XP install to work, this was a fix for the last BIOS update. If I didnt update the BIOS first, then the XP install would have failed). I was surprised it installed (and its not as slow as a snail), too since its only got 96 mb in it. Its probably fast because there's nothing else on it (except Windows). Because I'll probably run out of room lol All I have to get is a $30 PCMCIA card and it'll be on the net. I may have to bring it into the lounge if it ever needs updating, because thats where the router is |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 790804 | 2009-07-13 23:58:00 | Me lost | Sir Prospect (14735) | ||
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