[nmglug] dial up

[akaluta at zianet.com]

Sam:
Thanks for the response,the modem I have is a usr 5639,literature says 
driver are in 2.6 kernals.
Tried to dual boot a xp here with ubuntu last week,got excited and wiped out 
five years of info plus some photos I would like to have kept.
My reason for wishing to dual with xp or vista is to have some type of 
working hardware to access the internet until any bug a worked out .
Of course there is not guarantee,In the past I have travel from Taos to 
Santa Fe for glug meetings and have been the only person present,now living 
on a retirement budget it is more difficult to make the trip on the 
speculation that willing knowledgable assistance may be available,so,my hope 
was to confirm the possiblity of assistance for the Thursday night meeting, 
particularly is there is a preexisting topic for the evening.
I have gotten out the Linux books still don't know much,enjoying trying to 
make some sense out of it,where init take over have a bit of an idea,have 
looked at the kernal map and basic kernal config,dont quite get the mbr or 
glug loading specificw however trying to zero in on that,messed up the 
simple dual boot install,lost a lot.Sam I am glad you are around and are 
well,I appreciate your response.Best Regards. Anthony K

 

Sam Noble writes: 

> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 06:03 -0600, akaluta at zianet.com wrote:
>> The installed distro does 
>> not seem to do anything with my dial up modem. Anyone have any head-up
>> on 
>> how to proceed. looked in ls -l /dev found a few things with dial up 
>> attached. do not find uvdial in programs may be the problem.
> 
> I think you're thinking of wvdial. Which is not strictly necessary to
> use a modem, but it is one of the easier ways to get dial up working. 
> 
>> If that is in 
>> fact the problem that would lead to the question of how to download
>> from 
>> vista and load to Ubuntu.
> 
> Shouldn't be a big problem, Just a matter of finding all the packages
> you need since you won't have apt to resolve dependencies on the fly. 
> 
>> Am I on the right track? assume there is no plug and play, any
>> comments 
>> please. 
> 
> Many USB modems work great these days. I've been buying Zoom and Hayes
> (Zoom bought Hayes but they still sell as both brands.) USB modems for a
> project at work. They use the cdc_acm driver, but the upshot is you plug
> them in and they automagically create /dev/ttyUSBx. 
> 
>> The second topic,will anyone who is planning to be at the Santa Fe
>> meeting 
>> Thursday be willing to meet and guide me through a dual boot
>> vista/debian 
>> install.
> 
> I don't imagine anyone being excited to work with Vista, Dual-booting is
> easy-schmeazy though of course as Mars suggests, virtualization is
> usually more useful these days. 
> 
>> I would be comming from Taos for such a  meeting,so if I could firm 
>> up an arrangement,I,in exchange,subject to a successful install,would
>> in 
>> turn,provied a complimentry dinner at Santa Fe's finest baking
>> company,you 
>> also receive a slap on the back and a hearty handshake. So best
>> regards to 
>> all be well. Anthony K
> 
> Sorry Anthony, nobody here works for food! At nmglug we're passionate
> about freedom and software, so everyone gets access to our resources,
> human and otherwise, in order to answer questions, help solve problems
> and keep members informed. So it's all free whether you like it or not,
> (exceptions may be made for back-slaps and handshakes, In fact Jason's
> been looking like he could use some dorsal-fin beating  :) 
> 
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