meeting
Ronald Maggio
r.v.maggio at worldnet.att.net
Sat May 18 19:43:05 EDT 2002
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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, I just let it write the bootrecord
as an additional line of I guess for lack of a better term
(instructions)? 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 to understand the picture. I mean the
inner working of it seem to loose me. I don't know I guess in time 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> 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> </FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#737373><I> </FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><I>Well I have
a Motorola SM56K winmodem on my 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&nodeId=01M0yyK3NVV"><FONT
size=2><B><I>http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=SM56PCI2DFV&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 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. 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> </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
----- </FONT></FONT></I><BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
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> </FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#737373><FONT size=2><B><I>Sorry to hear about that. Well 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. I
still have great interest in the topics you where going to cover.
So if you are going to present them at the next
meeting, I</FONT></FONT></B></I><FONT color=#737373><FONT
size=2><B><I> will look forward to that
presentation.</FONT></FONT></B></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
size=3><I> </FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
size=3><I>Ron Maggio</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
size=3><I>Have Screwdriver Will Travel</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>Computer Repair
Service</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>P.O.
BOX 186</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
size=3><I>Spring Brook, NY. 14140-0186</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#737373><FONT size=3><I>Phone: (716) 677-5909</FONT></FONT></I>
<BR><A href="mailto:havescrewdriverwilltravel at worldnet.att.net"><FONT
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