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First the beef:
a friend of mine is running the Mandrake 8.0 Linux distribution on a K6-III@400/256Mb Ram. Recently he "upgraded" from an E-Tech Bullet 28.8 external modem to an internal PCI 56K modem, which - of course - is a shitmo..., i mean winmodem (thank you 3Com for that nifty name).
The soup:
It features the ESS ES 56T-PI shipset and the only solution, that works partially, we have found is to download a Redhat6.1 kernel that was used to compile the driver into it. But that's a 2.2.x kernel and for some reason it keeps bombing some other applications like Maple (under KDE) that run fine with the 2.4 of the original distribution. We, of course tried reinstalling the corresponding packages but to no avail.
The salt:
We are both pretty much newbies regarding Linux and are now completely out of options and ideas.
I know, that this is NOT the right place to ask for it, but maybe you happen to have a straight answer (except "thrash it", which we thought by ourselves before
).
Kind regards
a friend of mine is running the Mandrake 8.0 Linux distribution on a K6-III@400/256Mb Ram. Recently he "upgraded" from an E-Tech Bullet 28.8 external modem to an internal PCI 56K modem, which - of course - is a shitmo..., i mean winmodem (thank you 3Com for that nifty name).
The soup:
It features the ESS ES 56T-PI shipset and the only solution, that works partially, we have found is to download a Redhat6.1 kernel that was used to compile the driver into it. But that's a 2.2.x kernel and for some reason it keeps bombing some other applications like Maple (under KDE) that run fine with the 2.4 of the original distribution. We, of course tried reinstalling the corresponding packages but to no avail.
The salt:
We are both pretty much newbies regarding Linux and are now completely out of options and ideas.
I know, that this is NOT the right place to ask for it, but maybe you happen to have a straight answer (except "thrash it", which we thought by ourselves before
). Kind regards
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