maurice batey

Contemplating installing Mandriva 2007 to dual boot with Vista (Bus.) on a
Toshiba laptop, I'm just wondering if there is now a Linux solution to the
'software' modem problem, as this laptop has a s/w modem.

With my desktop PC I've always used an external modem by preference, but
do not fancy carting an external modem around with the laptop. On the
other hand I do not fancy using Vista alone on it.

[Non sequitor: MS now seem to acknowledge that other operating systems
might be installed alongside Windows. In the Vista booklet that came with
the laptop:
"Partitions allow you to install more than one operating system on your
computer."!]

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george czerw

You might want to start here:

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

http://tuxmobil.org/index.html

http://www.linmodems.org/

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/

http://start.at/modem/

http://www.linuxant.com/company/index.php

unruh

George Czerw <noone@nowhere.net> writes:

There is no "software" modem problem, there are "software"modem problems.
Ie, it depends entirely on what your soft modem is. http://www.linmodems.org


Nope. They mean DOS, Windows XP, Windows 2000 stuff like that.

maurice batey

Looks as though I shall have to abandon that aim, as Mandriva 2007 will
not boot on the Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro A120-185).

(Nor will Knoppix 5.1.0 - which I have been using for system backup -
though the *ubuntu family does.)

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neil ellwood

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:25:42 +0100

Both 2006 and 2007 did.

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alan secker

Does the disk not offer options at the bottom? If so, try
noapic when booting. That helped me with earlier Mandriva
versions.

Alan

maurice batey

Tried that - same problem.

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