Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 06, 2004 04:54 AM
I have "dabbled" with Mandrake linux for a couple of years now, but not on my main desk-top, as I rely heavily on Quick Books, which in turn is dependant on IE, OE and Excel if one wants to transfer data to spreadsheet. But I had a secondary PC solely for internet & e-mail use using Mandrake 9
Some months back we had a Compaq Presario 700 brought into the workshop. Heavily infected with viruses which had damaged the XP operating system. We tried the Compaq recovery disc, reinstalling XP from scratch, backtracked to Win2K, then to Win98. Our client then gave up and bought a new Notebook. We inherited a supposedly defunct Compaq, so we carried on experimenting. We first tried Mandrake, and when that failed, tried SuSE 9.1 - It worked<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-))
However at every boot-up I had a message that there was a problem with the powersave functions, and I couldn't get either the internal or any other external modem configured. You will realise here, if not beforehand, that I am not a Linux "Fundi", as we say here in Africa. (Fundi = Expert.)
So, a couple of weeks ago, I did a search for alternatives and found Mepis, downloaded it, installed it, registered it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)), and I'm now sending mails from the notebook!
Mepis installation was a cinch, and it is the only version of Linux that is showing me where the problem probably lies - see title. It didn't find the internal winmodem, but I have successfully installed an external modem, and Crossoveroffice, on a test basis, and Quick Books, and its dependant IE, and OE programs.
I have subsequently tried UbuntuLinux, but that couldn't see my modems either<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-((
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 06, 2004 04:54 AMI have "dabbled" with Mandrake linux for a couple of years now, but not on my main desk-top, as I rely heavily on Quick Books, which in turn is dependant on IE, OE and Excel if one wants to transfer data to spreadsheet. But I had a secondary PC solely for internet & e-mail use using Mandrake 9
Some months back we had a Compaq Presario 700 brought into the workshop. Heavily infected with viruses which had damaged the XP operating system. We tried the Compaq recovery disc, reinstalling XP from scratch, backtracked to Win2K, then to Win98. Our client then gave up and bought a new Notebook. We inherited a supposedly defunct Compaq, so we carried on experimenting. We first tried Mandrake, and when that failed, tried SuSE 9.1 - It worked<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-))
However at every boot-up I had a message that there was a problem with the powersave functions, and I couldn't get either the internal or any other external modem configured. You will realise here, if not beforehand, that I am not a Linux "Fundi", as we say here in Africa. (Fundi = Expert.)
So, a couple of weeks ago, I did a search for alternatives and found Mepis, downloaded it, installed it, registered it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)), and I'm now sending mails from the notebook!
Mepis installation was a cinch, and it is the only version of Linux that is showing me where the problem probably lies - see title. It didn't find the internal winmodem, but I have successfully installed an external modem, and Crossoveroffice, on a test basis, and Quick Books, and its dependant IE, and OE programs.
I have subsequently tried UbuntuLinux, but that couldn't see my modems either<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-((
And that is why we need choice?
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