On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 14:00, der.hans wrote:
> Am 12. Sep, 2003 schwätzte betty i so:
> 
> > after listening to everyone's arguments over these last few days, i think
> > my next install will be debian :-)
> 
> Welcome to the dark side ;-).
> 
> > i like redhat (ease of use for a newbie; did my own install; like others,
> > several times...) but it sounds like debian may be a new, fun challenge.
> > ( i also tried mandrake and had trouble with the modem (external) part of
> > the install so gave up after a few days)
> 
> I think most of us forget there is still such a thing a using a phone
> connection. We really need to have a couple of people who're good at getting
> dialup accounts configged as this seems to be a recurring issue.
> 
> I just wrote Eldric to see if we can get an analog phone into the install
> room. If not we might be able to use cell phones. It would be better to have
> a hard line, though. Who knows, maybe Morpheus will show up and save us :).
> 
> > don't a lot of people use their new machine set up for the internet and
> > how will they do that with a winmodem?
> 
> winmodems needs to be one of the topics covered in the InstallFest section
> on the web site. We also need to start re-using content like that rather
> than re-creating it for every InstallFest.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

I've had pretty good luck setting up Lucent chipped winmodems. There are
binaries for Debian, Mandrake & RedHat here:

http://www.heby.de/ltmodem

Just need to make sure you get the one that matches your kernel.

Dennis Kibbe
PS: Oh,oh! I didn't just volunteer myself for something, did I? <g>