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Ronald Maggio r.v.maggio at worldnet.att.net
Sat May 18 19:43:05 EDT 2002


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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=peter at thecybersource.com href="mailto:peter at thecybersource.com">Cyber 
  Source</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nflug at nflug.org 
  href="mailto:nflug at nflug.org">nflug at nflug.org</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 18, 2002 4:30 
PM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: meeting</DIV>
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  <DIV><BR>I've never done a dual boot with XP and anything. I would imagine 
  it's like the rest though, do the Windows first then do the Linux. I also 
  believe that Mandrake 8x with LILO writes to the MBR of the drive it booted 
  from (or was installed to) automatically. As with the modem, the chipset is 
  the important piece. Conexant chipsets (used on alot of motorola's) have great 
  linux support. Lucent has good support as well while Rockwell I've found to be 
  the most trouble. Good luck with it, if you need help b4 the next meeting, let 
  me know <BR>On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 15:44, Ronald Maggio wrote: </DIV>
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  <DIV><STRONG>Well it won't be for some time till I get the money together to 
  buy another HDD and maybe a cd-rw as well. I believe it says Motorola right on 
  the chip (sets) so I have no idea weather it's really Conexant or otherwise. 
  I'm going to put the other HDD as a secondary on the secondary IDE channel and 
  set the cd-rw to primary on the same channel. Well LILO or GRUB can be written 
  to the bootrecords in a few ways,&nbsp;I just let it write&nbsp;the bootrecord 
  as an additional line of I guess for lack of a better term 
  (instructions)?&nbsp;to the MBR on the primary drive primary channel. 
  </STRONG><STRONG>I tend to leave well enough alone, and if I run into trouble 
  I just fdisk the MBR and reinstall Linux. ie: fdisk /mbr at a DOS prompt. Well 
  after your presentation next month I'm sure I'll understand how to do it. At 
  least I hope! I'm still kind of at a loss at Linux, but I hope in time I'll 
  get the hang of it. You know I picked up DOS and Windows really quick but for 
  the life of me I just can't get&nbsp;to understand the picture. I mean the 
  inner working of it seem to loose me. I don't know I guess in time&nbsp;I'll 
  get it? Well see ya:)</STRONG></DIV>
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  <DIV><STRONG>Ron</STRONG></DIV></DIV>
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    <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#737373><I>----- Original Message ----- 
      </FONT></I><BR><FONT color=#737373><B><I>From:</FONT></B></I><FONT 
      color=#737373><I> </FONT></I><A 
      href="mailto:peter at thecybersource.com"><I>Cyber Source</I></A> <BR><FONT 
      color=#737373><B><I>To:</FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><I> 
      </FONT></I><A href="mailto:nflug at nflug.org"><I>nflug at nflug.org</I></A> 
      <BR><FONT color=#737373><B><I>Sent:</FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><I> 
      Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:24 PM</FONT></I> <BR><FONT 
      color=#737373><B><I>Subject:</FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><I> Re: 
      meeting</FONT></I> <BR><BR><FONT color=#737373><I>Thanks Ron, 
      </FONT></I><BR><FONT color=#737373><I>&nbsp; Ok then, I will plan on it 
      for the next meeting if that is ok with everyone. I just haven't had the 
      time lately to prepare anything. I will do an installation with a software 
      modem, if we have internet, show how to install LimeWire with Java (very 
      cool) and even install a tv tuner card, Bob Meyer really gets a kick out 
      of those (they do rock!). If people would like for me to do this at the 
      next meeting, I will prepare, please voice up people. </FONT></I><BR><FONT 
      color=#737373><I>On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 11:47, Ronald Maggio 
      wrote:</FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><I>&nbsp;</FONT></I> <BR><FONT 
      color=#737373><I>&nbsp;</FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><I>Well I have 
      a Motorola SM56K&nbsp;winmodem on my&nbsp;AMD box, I was planning to add 
      another HDD to install Mandrake 8.? and as well a cd-rw. Now here's where 
      your presentation would come in handy for someone like me. Motorola does 
      not make modems anymore, but they have this webpage available to download 
      the drivers for Windows 2000 and also for Linux. (Thats how I got the 
      modem to work with XP) Here's the web site for the drivers. Oh I did 
      download the drivers for Linux. </FONT></I><A 
      href="http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=SM56PCI2DFV&amp;nodeId=01M0yyK3NVV"><FONT 
      size=2><B><I>http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=SM56PCI2DFV&amp;nodeId=01M0yyK3NVV</FONT></B></I></A> 
      <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>I hope to be able to install this 
      modem for Linux as I have done for XP. I also have a question. Have you or 
      anyone done a dualboot with XP and Linux&nbsp;with LILO or GRUB and was it 
      a pain or easy? Anything I should know about? Please share:) Its a nice 
      speakerphone voice modem vary popular and stable. I often see it still 
      available cheep around twenty dollars. Don't ask me what I paid a couple 
      years ago, but it was selling for more then it going for now! Installing 
      it in XP was relatively easy. I would not recommend installing it manually 
      from safemode but let XP do an automatic installation from safemode and 
      your in like flint. Yes I know what is going to be said. How come you had 
      to install the modem in this way, and how its easyer to install a modem in 
      Linux is ya da ya da ya da. Well I like XP and this is the nature of the 
      beast and I had no misconception about XP and how to install hardware on 
      it. I read the compatibili! ty information listed at M$ web site and knew 
      what I was getting into.&nbsp; I have never seen a perfect relationship 
      between the end user and the beast. </FONT></FONT></I><BR><FONT 
      color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>So see you fellows 
      tomorrow.</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
      size=3><I>&nbsp;</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
      size=2><B><I>Ron:)</FONT></FONT></B></I> 
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        <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>----- Original Message 
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          size=3><B><I>From:</FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><I> </FONT></FONT></I><A 
          href="mailto:peter at thecybersource.com"><FONT size=3><I>Cyber 
          Source</FONT></I></A> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><B><I>To:</FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><I> </FONT></FONT></I><A href="mailto:nflug at nflug.org"><FONT 
          size=3><I>nflug at nflug.org</FONT></I></A> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><B><I>Sent:</FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><I> Saturday, May 18, 2002 9:25 AM</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT 
          color=#737373><FONT size=3><B><I>Subject:</FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT 
          color=#737373><FONT size=3><I> meeting</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><BR><FONT 
          color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>I regretfully have to miss tomorrow's 
          meeting as some work and vehicle emergencies have popped up. I really 
          haven't had time to prepare stuff for the installation presentation 
          and there seemed to be a lack of interest on this as far as feedback 
          from everyone. I would like to slate it for the next meeting if there 
          is still an interest. </FONT></FONT></I><BR><BR><FONT 
          color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>&nbsp;</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT 
          color=#737373><FONT size=2><B><I>Sorry to hear about that. Well&nbsp;I 
          was looking forward to this meeting for your presentation on how to 
          install a soft modem, so on and so forth. </FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT 
          color=#737373><FONT size=2><B><I>I also hoped that you where going to 
          have a handout to read as a short review of your presentation. ie: web 
          links, ect, for further information on the subjects covered.&nbsp; I 
          still have great interest in the topics you where going to cover. 
          So&nbsp;if you are going to present them at the next 
          meeting,&nbsp;I</FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=2><B><I>&nbsp;will look forward to that 
          presentation.</FONT></FONT></B></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><I>&nbsp;</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
          size=3><I>Ron Maggio</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT 
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          <BR><A href="mailto:havescrewdriverwilltravel at worldnet.att.net"><FONT 
          size=3><I>havescrewdriverwilltravel at worldnet.att.net</FONT></I></A> 
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