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370946 2005-07-12 09:33:00 Jen, he never got to the dining room table. He’s comatose at the bottom of the liquor cabinet surrounded by bottles.

Does Linux do this to everyone?

By morning he’ll be either hung over or rich. :D

Cheers

Bob’s minder :thumbs:

Good on him, you should never have tried to stop him in the first place.

I'd have a wee bet with Bob that Mepis would detect the modem. Fortunately, he'll be too toated to remember it in the morning. 		Murray P (44)
370947 2005-07-12 18:58:00 Ohhhhhhh ouch my head. I passed out counting bytes, or was it nips? :p

Anyway, I’m not rich as I think I’ve discovered the byte counting phenomena.

There seems to be two packages downloadable, one is just the driver, and the other the driver plus a number of .pdf files. (Manual, licenses, etc.) Not wishing to confuse the issue, which is probably exactly what I’ve done, I stuck with the driver file only.

However, this does lead to another wee problem in that I can’t ”Mount the Floppy Disk Drive”. (I do hope nobody saw me trying) :blush: A leg up here would be useful. ;) 		B.M. (505)
370948 2005-07-12 20:00:00 to mount a floppy go to a terminel (or shell as its sometimes called)

type in

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

then

ls -al /mnt/floppy

the last command will list the contents of the floppy disk inclus' of hidden files

this page (www.alwanza.com) has more depth instructions

once finished

umount /mnt/floppy

then remove 		beama (111)
370949 2005-07-12 22:43:00 Thanks Beama

Wahoooo, I’ve mounted the floppy, turned up the volume and we’re all giddy-up . :thumbs:

Now, for those interested the dirty tricks brigade were at work here . The problem was that I was using a pre-formatted floppy . I remembered getting similar messages way back in the DOS days when one machine couldn’t read floppies formatted in another .
So I re-formatted the disk in the Ubuntu machine, copied the file on the Win machine and can now see it on the Ubuntu machine .

I’m using the 441kb XH1154_Intel536-4 . 68-mike . tar . gz driver on floppy .

Well things aren’t quite perfect because I am still getting the following message .

root@ubuntu:/home/mine/ # tar xvzf/mnt/fd0/* . tar . gz

tar: old option “f” requires an argument .

Try tar –help for more information .

Ok, the help file is extensive and out of my league at the moment .

So team, it’s just a matter of installing this driver and seeing if the modem works .

How do I install it? :D 		B.M. (505)
370950 2005-07-13 00:13:00 You need to copy the file to new folder in your home directory from the floppy first. If the floppy is already mounted, then you might have a floppy device icon on your desktop or you can browse to /mnt/floppy to access it there (yes, you can copy via commands but I'm trying to keep it straight forward here :p).

Now in your new folder open up a terminal window and then enter in the command ls (that is a lowercase L) which will list the contents to make sure the terminal window has been opened in the correct directory - you should see your file listed. If you don't, then you need to navigate to that folder. Now enter in the tar xvzf *.gz command. The file will have been extracted and you should now have a folder called Intel536-4.68-mike. Change into this folder:

cd Int<hit tab at this point and it will autocomplete the file name> - [enter]

Now you will need to switch to root powers, by entering su[enter] and roots password (note: do not use "su -" with the hyphen as this will give you root but change your current location to /root instead).

Now to start installing! :D

Enter in on separate lines:

make clean [enter]
make 536 [enter]
make install [enter]

Note: the make 536 and make install will result in heaps of stuff scrolling past, so just wait until it finishes. If you get an error message, then copy the line where the error message first appeared (often a few lines above the grinding halt messaage).

Now go for it, but don't forget to have a read of the readme.txt found in the Intel536-4.68-mike folder. :thumbs: 		Jen (38)
370951 2005-07-14 00:17:00 Wahhhhhh, Boohoooooo, grrrrrrrrr.

I don’t believe it. I followed the instruction to the letter, (capital letters too grrr), and blow me down if I didn’t get the following message again:

running kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386
unsupported kernel version
make: ***[install] error 1

geeeeeeeez I’m loosing my sense of humour. Where’s the bottle?? :) 		B.M. (505)
370952 2005-07-14 01:13:00 I downloaded the "standard" latest tar . gz file from DSE .

I unpacked it this morning . I did cd Intel* I looked at the readme . txt file . I typed
make clean
make 536
make install

It wrote lots of things to the screen, including my pet hate: warning messages about "deprecated" things which don't do any damage . (I think it's not a proper compile unless there are no messages -- it shows lazy programming techniques) .

But it compiled and installed a driver .

It fails modprobe (loading of the driver) because I haven't got an Intel 536 modem installed . That's fine . I have the funny idea that if I had such a modem card, it would work . ;)

Now what did I do differently?

The box I used has a mature distribution on it: Mandrake 10 . It's got a 2 . 6 . 3 kernel . (It's a bit shambolic because I'm trying to rebuild it from a loader crash) . But it works . Even though the recovery gave me KDE instaead of Gnome . :(

Ubuntu and all the other "new better user-fiendly intuitive just like Windows" distributions aren't a good idea until they have been though a few versions . Unless you've got the same hardware as their developers you can have problems .

Debian based distributions are different from others . Some say that's better . But its different . Someone changed one of the scripts so the Intel supplied package would work for him . For the version of Debian he had . Ubuntu is "Debian based" . It might have "improvements" on the way CDebian does things . 		Graham L (2)
370953 2005-07-14 06:15:00 running kernel 2 . 6 . 8 . 1-3-386
unsupported kernel version
make: ***[install] error 1OK, well use the standard driver from DSE, looks like the modified "mike" one doesn't run on 2 . 6 kernels :dogeye: . The standard one is is the 1 . 7 MB file :D

You are nearly there, I'm sure the liver can hold out a wee bit longer! 		Jen (38)
370954 2005-07-14 12:36:00 Fare crack of the whip .

If I ever get this thing going it will be a b…… . miracle . Walking on water is a breeze .

The problem Jen is that we’ve done the full circle . It was the ordinary, common, garbage, driver, that told me “Wrong Kernel’ in the first place .

Now, I’ve spent a bit of time with the wrong Kernels, or was that Colonel’s? :)

Anyway, I’m off to bed with a small dram to see me through the night .

(my minder isn’t watching) :D 		B.M. (505)
370955 2005-07-14 12:48:00 The problem Jen is that we’ve done the full circle. It was the ordinary, common, garbage, driver, that told me “Wrong Kernel’ in the first place.Nah, the first time was an outdated file on the supplied CD, the second time if your check the driver version (mike's one) is ver 4.68, the stock driver for Linux (1.7 MB one) is ver 4.69. The support for the newer kernel's must of occured in version 4.69, which supports the 2.6 kernel as Graham has kindly already displayed. :)


Anyway, I’m off to bed with a small dram to see me through the night.

(my minder isn’t watching) :DYou might wish to stock up the liquor cabinet tomorrow while Mr Minder isn't around ;) 		Jen (38)
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